SSA-507364
This flaw makes curl overflow a heap based buffer in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake. When curl is asked to pass along the hostname to the SOCKS5 proxy to allow that to resolve the address instead of it getting done by curl itself, the maximum length that hostname can be is 255 bytes. If the hostname is detected to be longer than 255 bytes, curl switches to local name resolving and instead passes on the resolved address only to the proxy. Due to a bug, the local variable that means "let the host resolve the name" could get the wrong value during a slow SOCKS5 handshake, and contrary to the intention, copy the too long hostname to the target buffer instead of copying just the resolved address there.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens | Desigo CC family V7 | |
| Siemens | SENTRON Powermanager V6 | |
| Siemens | SENTRON Powermanager V7 | |
| Siemens | SENTRON Powermanager V8 | |
| Siemens | Desigo CC family V8 | |
| Siemens | Desigo CC family V6 |
Exploit Intelligence
- This script is designed to exploit a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in a socks5 proxy server. (github-poc-repo)
- Yang-Shun-Yu/CVE-2023-38545 (github-poc-repo)
- Network Security Project CVE-2023-38545 (github-poc-repo)
- Network Security Project CVE-2023-38545 (github-poc)
- Yang-Shun-Yu/CVE-2023-38545 (github-poc)
- This script is designed to exploit a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in a socks5 proxy server. (github-poc)
- A proof of concept for testing CVE-2023-38545 against local curl (github-poc)
- CVE-2023-38545 POC for the curl command line tool (github-poc)
- Dockerfile containing all the necessary setup files to demo the exploit (github-poc)
- Simple PoC causing overflow (github-poc)
…and 17 more exploits
Timeline
- Feb 10, 2026 CVE Published