CVE-2023-27534: SFTP path ~ resolving discrepancy

Disclosed: 2023-03-20 20:50:25 By nyymi To ibb
Low
Vulnerability Details
curl supports SFTP transfers. curl's SFTP implementation offers a special feature in the path component of URLs: a tilde (~) character as the first path element in the path to denotes a path relative to the user's home directory. This is supported because of wording in the once proposed to-become RFC draft that was to dictate how SFTP URLs work. Due to a bug, the handling of the tilde in SFTP path did however not only replace it when it is used stand-alone as the first path element but also wrongly when used as a mere prefix in the first element. Using a path like /~2/foo when accessing a server using the user dan (with home directory /home/dan) would then quite surprisingly access the file /home/dan2/foo. ## Hackerone report #1892351 ## Impact Circumventing filtering.
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  • Report ID: 1912777
  • State: Closed
  • Substate: resolved
  • Upvotes: 6
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