"Maintainers Warn of Vulnerability Affecting Foundational Open-Source Tool"

Two vulnerabilities have been announced by the maintainers of a popular open-source tool that provides foundational support for multiple network protocols, including SSL, TLS, HTTP, FTP, and SMTP. The problems revolve around curl, an open-source command-line tool that researchers say is widely used by developers and system administrators to interact with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), download files, and create automated workflows. The tool's maintainers announced in a GitHub advisory that they will issue fixes for one high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38545, and one low-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38546. This article continues to discuss the potential exploitation and impact of the two vulnerabilities.

The Record reports "Maintainers Warn of Vulnerability Affecting Foundational Open-Source Tool"

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