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Curl is very widely used and has a ton of features which means that it gets a lot of CVEs, but their severity is often significantly overstated for users outside of specific niche configurations - for marketing purposes, it’s nice to be able to say that you found a HIGH in libcurl without mentioning that it only affected Windows domain authentication on ARM. The lead developer has written about this providing a lot of noise without much tangible security benefit:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve...

parent acdha 3 years ago

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