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CVE-2019-3822

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 12.77%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-02-06 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. Its EPSS score suggests a 12.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE
CVE-2019-3822
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
12.77%

Original NVD Description

libcurl versions from 7.36.0 to before 7.64.0 are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The function creating an outgoing NTLM type-3 header (`lib/vauth/ntlm.c:Curl_auth_create_ntlm_type3_message()`), generates the request HTTP header contents based on previously received data. The check that exists to prevent the local buffer from getting overflowed is implemented wrongly (using unsigned math) and as such it does not prevent the overflow from happening. This output data can grow larger than the local buffer if very large 'nt response' data is extracted from a previous NTLMv2 header provided by the malicious or broken HTTP server. Such a 'large value' needs to be around 1000 bytes or more. The actual payload data copied to the target buffer comes from the NTLMv2 type-2 response header.

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