CVE-2025-5025 (GCVE-0-2025-5025)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-28 06:29 – Updated: 2025-05-30 16:19
VLAI
Title
No QUIC certificate pinning with wolfSSL
Summary
libcurl supports *pinning* of the server certificate public key for HTTPS transfers. Due to an omission, this check is not performed when connecting with QUIC for HTTP/3, when the TLS backend is wolfSSL. Documentation says the option works with wolfSSL, failing to specify that it does not for QUIC and HTTP/3. Since pinning makes the transfer succeed if the pin is fine, users could unwittingly connect to an impostor server without noticing.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-30 16:19 UTC
CWE
Assigner
curl CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard D 46/100 over 51 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
curl curl Affected: 8.13.0 , ≤ 8.13.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.12.1 , ≤ 8.12.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.12.0 , ≤ 8.12.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.11.1 , ≤ 8.11.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.11.0 , ≤ 8.11.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.10.1 , ≤ 8.10.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.10.0 , ≤ 8.10.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.9.1 , ≤ 8.9.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.9.0 , ≤ 8.9.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.8.0 , ≤ 8.8.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.7.1 , ≤ 8.7.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.7.0 , ≤ 8.7.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.6.0 , ≤ 8.6.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.5.0 , ≤ 8.5.0 (semver)
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Credits
Hiroki Kurosawa Stefan Eissing
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Sightings

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Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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How durations are calculated

Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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