CVE-2022-32206: exploitation status and patch state
CVE-2022-32206 · CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM · EPSS 32%
curl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of memory errors.
Is CVE-2022-32206 exploited?
Not in the CISA KEV catalog.
EPSS puts exploitation in the next 30 days at 32%.
Public exploit code: none found in monitored sources.
Which products and versions are affected?
No affected package list recorded here yet.
Is there a patch?
No patch identifier recorded here yet.
What PlainSec published about CVE-2022-32206
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