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Improper dependency pinning In curl-cffi

Description

curl_cffi bundles a version of libcurl affected by High Severity vulnerability

Summary

curl_cffi is potentially affected by High Severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545) in libcurl<8.4.0

Details

HIGH severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl: announcement Details are still unknown, but seems it will be a major issue as it's advertised by curl devs as "probably the worst curl security flaw in a long time". A patched version (8.4.0) and details will be published around 06:00 UTC on October 11. curl_cffi wheels on PyPI ship with libcurl 7.84.0

PoC

https://inspector.pypi.io/project/curl-cffi/0.5.10b2/packages/56/ae/eb7d39ad234f1f44650b910757d5aa696feff413d327c8328223ce78cb76/curl_cffi-0.5.10b2-cp37-abi3-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl/curl_cffi/include/curl/curlver.h

Resolution

Versions after 0.7 bundles with libcurl>=8.5, which is not affected by this issue.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Package
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. GHSA-3vpc-4p9p-47hc2. GHSA-7xw9-w465-6x423. GCVE-GHSA-3vpc-4p9p-47hc

References

1. https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi/security/advisories/GHSA-3vpc-4p9p-47hc

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