CVE-2024-2379

Publication date 27 March 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Upstream developers consider this a low severity issue

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
curl	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

Ubuntu package does not use the wolfSSL backend. Only affects 8.6.0.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
curl	Upstream: aedbbdf

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L