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CVE-2020-8169
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…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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).
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.5% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
https://github.com/curl/curl
- affected libcurl 7.62.0 to and including 7.70.0
References
References8
- https://hackerone.com/reports/874778 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4881 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-200951.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-200951.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-389290.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-29053 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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