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    "id": "CVE-2023-38546",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38546",
    "idYear": 2023,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2023-10-18T03:51:31.276Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T23:35:03.905Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:56:58.683Z",
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      "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline",
      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": null,
      "summary": "This flaw allows an attacker to insert cookies at will into a running program\nusing libcurl, if the specific series of conditions are met.\n\nlibcurl performs transfers. In its API, an application creates \"easy handles\"\nthat are the individual handles for single transfers.\n\nlibcurl provides a function call that duplicates en easy handle called\n[curl_easy_duphandle](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_duphandle.html).\n\nIf a transfer has cookies enabled when the handle is duplicated, the\ncookie-enable state is also cloned - but without cloning the actual\ncookies. If the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on\ndisk, the cloned version of the handle would instead store the file name as\n`none` (using the four ASCII letters, no quotes).\n\nSubsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to\nload cookies from would then inadvertently load cookies from a file named\n`none` - if such a file exists and is readable in the current directory of the\nprogram using libcurl. And if using the correct file format of course.",
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        {
          "vendor": "curl",
          "product": "curl",
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              "version": "8.4.0",
              "status": "affected",
              "versionType": "semver",
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              "version": "7.9.1",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThan": "7.9.1"
            }
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