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CURL-CVE-2017-2629

Published Feb 22, 2017·Last modified Apr 25, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

curl and libcurl support "OCSP stapling", also known as the TLS Certificate Status Request extension (using the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS option). When telling curl to use this feature, it uses that TLS extension to ask for a fresh proof of the server's certificate's validity. If the server does not support the extension, or fails to provide said proof, curl is expected to return an error.

Due to a coding mistake, the code that checks for a test success or failure, ends up always thinking there is valid proof, even when there is none or if the server does not support the TLS extension in question. Contrary to how it used to function and contrary to how this feature is documented to work.

This could lead to users not detecting when a server's certificate goes invalid or otherwise be mislead that the server is in a better shape than it is in reality.

This flaw also exists in the command line tool (--cert-status).

Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
1.39%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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