CVE-2020-8169

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

curl 7.62.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability that can lead to a partial password being leaked over the network and to the DNS server(s).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8169.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8169

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed7.71.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed7.72.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7.72.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed7.72.0-1
debian debiansidfixed7.72.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7.72.0-1
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.