CVE-2013-1944: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The tailMatch function in cookie.c in cURL and libcurl before 7.30.0 does not properly match the path domain when sending cookies, which allows remote attackers to steal cookies via a matching suffix in the domain of a URL.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 10.04 only; version 11.10 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only
• Haxx Curl: up to and including 7.29.0; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 6.3.1 only; …
• Haxx Libcurl: up to and including 7.29.0; version 7.14.0 only; version 7.14.1 only; version 7.15.0 only; version 7.15.1 only; version 7.15.2 only; …

Published 2013-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.