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CVE-2020-8169

high

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 th…

Vendor / product: Haxx — curl

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).

CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2020-12-14 20:15
Modified: 2026-11-02 18:18
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

haxx / curl ≥7.62.0 ≤7.70.0
siemens / simatic_tim_1531_irc_firmware <2.2
debian / debian_linux 10.0
siemens / sinec_infrastructure_network_services <1.0.1.1
splunk / universal_forwarder ≥8.2.0 <8.2.12, ≥9.0.0 <9.0.6, 9.1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html
Vendor advisory: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html
Patch / mitigation: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
Patch / mitigation: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC · record ↗

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