curl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.
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Score 7.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.7.
curl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.
December 14, 2020
April 15, 2026
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libcurl4-openssl-dev (7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4) @ trusty | 2026-05-22 | ubuntu |
| redhat | openshiftdo/odo-init-image-rhel7:1.1.3-2 | 2021-03-22 | redhat |
| redhat | curl-0:7.61.1-12.el8_2.2 | 2020-12-15 | redhat |
| redhat | curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7_9.1 | 2020-11-10 | redhat |
| redhat | curl-0:7.61.1-14.el8 | 2020-11-04 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
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curl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.
RHSA-2020:4599 — Moderate
RHSA-2020:5002 — Moderate
RHSA-2020:5417 — Moderate
RHSA-2021:0949 — Moderate
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