{"id":"CVE-2024-7264","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-7264","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:43:56.534Z","title":"This flaw most likely leads to a crash, but can also lead to heap contents getting returned to the application when [CURLINFO_CERTINFO](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLINFO_CERTINFO.html) is used.","description":"libcurl's ASN1 parser code has the `GTime2str()` function, used for parsing an\nASN.1 Generalized Time field. If given an syntactically incorrect field, the\nparser might end up using -1 for the length of the *time fraction*, leading to\na `strlen()` getting performed on a pointer to a heap buffer area that is not\n(purposely) null terminated.\n\nThis flaw most likely leads to a crash, but can also lead to heap contents\ngetting returned to the application when\n[CURLINFO_CERTINFO](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLINFO_CERTINFO.html) is used.","published":"2024-07-31T08:15:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T01:19:20.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["haxx/libcurl"],"epss":{"score":0.20217,"percentile":0.97451,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-15","score":0.20202,"percentile":0.97434}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.2%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/31/1","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9"},{"url":"https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-7264.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9"},{"url":"https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-7264.json","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9"},{"url":"https://hackerone.com/reports/2629968","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Permissions Required","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/31/1","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/27959ecce75cdb2809c0bdb3286e60e08fadb519","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240828-0008/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241025-0006/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241025-0010/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-089022.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7264","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}