CVE-2010-3842
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.8EPSS 1.7%EU EUVD
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in curl 7.20.0 through 7.21.1, when the --remote-header-name or -J option is used, allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files by using \ (backslash) as a separator of path components within the Content-disposition HTTP header.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 1.7% (78th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-3821)
- Published
- October 28, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-3821 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- curl / curl
- curl / curl
- curl / curl
References
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20101013.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39532(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024583
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/4(Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642642
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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