CVE•Published 2020-12-14•Modified 2026-10-14•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2020-8285Haxx · Libcurl
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
95
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 5% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.
Timeline
Published 2020-12-14
Modified 2026-10-14
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag3 hosts
vuln:CVE-2020-8285Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Haxx Libcurl"All exposed Haxx Libcurl instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Libcurl"HTTP body or banner mentions "Libcurl" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2020-8285Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2020-8285Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2020-8285Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2020-8285GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2020-8285" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2020-8285 on GitHub.