curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.
References
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https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-389290.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cve-icon
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https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://hackerone.com/reports/1045844 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00029.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAEHE2S2QLO4AO4MEEYL75NB7SAH5PSL/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZUVSQHN2ESHMJXNQ2Z7T2EELBB5HJXG/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8285 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0007/ cve-icon cve-icon
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https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212327 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8285 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2020-12-14T19:39:04.000Z

Updated: 2026-10-14T08:34:48.026Z

Reserved: 2020-01-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-8285

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T09:56:28.307Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-14T20:15:13.983

Modified: 2026-10-14T09:17:20.520

Link: CVE-2020-8285

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-12-09T08:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-8285 - Bugzilla