description: A path traversal vulnerability exists in curl <8.0.0 SFTP implementation causes the tilde (~) character to be wrongly replaced when used as a prefix in the first path element, in addition to its intended use as the first element to indicate a path relative to the user's home directory. Attackers can exploit this flaw to bypass filtering or execute arbitrary code by crafting a path like /~2/foo while accessing a server with a specific user.
problem types: Path Traversal (CWE-22)
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: https://github.com/curl/curl
versions:
version: Fixed in 8.0.0, status: affected
}