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QUIC certificate check bypass with wolfSSL

Type: advisorySources: OSV

libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

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CVEs
CVE-2024-2379
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1 Nov 2026, 09:39 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

QUIC certificate check bypass with wolfSSL

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Mar 2024, 08:00 UTC

libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

osv:CURL-CVE-2024-2379
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CURL-CVE-2024-2379",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "QUIC certificate check bypass with wolfSSL",
    "summary": "libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.",
    "evidence": "osv:CURL-CVE-2024-2379",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "low",
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              "type": "GIT",
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      "modified": "2026-10-25T01:05:24.934218124Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "award": {
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        "issue": "https://hackerone.com/reports/2410774",
        "affects": "both",
        "package": "curl",
        "severity": "Low",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2024-03-27T08:00:00+00:00"
}