CVE-2020-8169

Publication date 24 June 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

curl 7.62.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability that can lead to a partial password being leaked over the network and to the DNS server(s).

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
curl	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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introduced in 7.62.0

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4402-1
curl vulnerabilities
24 June 2020

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8169