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Low severity2.4NVD Advisory· Published Apr 3, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-7407

CVE-2017-7407

Description

The ourWriteOut function in tool_writeout.c in curl 7.53.1 might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory in opportunistic circumstances by reading a workstation screen during use of a --write-out argument ending in a '%' character, which leads to a heap-based buffer over-read.

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