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Proxy Authentication Header Information Leakage

Project curl Security Advisory, August 3rd 2003 - Permalink

VULNERABILITY

When curl connected to a site via an HTTP proxy with the CONNECT request, the user and password used for the proxy connection was also sent off to the remote server.

INFO

securityfocus.com referred to it as BID 8432

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2003-1605 to this issue.

CWE-201: Information Exposure Through Sent Data

AFFECTED VERSIONS

Affected versions: curl 4.5 to and including curl 7.10.6
Not affected versions: curl < 4.5 and curl >= 7.10.7

CREDITS

We have no recording of who reported this.

Reported-by: unknown