CVE-2023-27534 (published 2023-03-30T00:00:00)
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.
Affected products: Vendor: n/a
Product: https://github.com/curl/curl
Versions: Fixed in 8.0.0