CVE-2020-8231: https://github.com/curl/curl

Use after free in https://github.com/curl/curl

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.053 · 92nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: hackerone) at 14 Dec 2020, 19:39 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	https://github.com/curl/curl	affected libcurl 7.29.0 to and including 7.71.1

Identifiers

CVE-2020-8231

CNA

hackerone

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-416

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.053, the 92nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

14 Dec 2020, 19:39 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
14 Dec 2020, 20:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

hackerone.com/reports/948876
curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2020-8231.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14 vendor-advisorygentoo
www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881 vendor-advisorydebian
lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E mailing-listmlist
lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E mailing-listmlist
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf confirm

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.