diff --git a/docs/SECURITY-PROCESS.md b/docs/SECURITY-PROCESS.md index 4a06a84e2a..a4cda248cf 100644 --- a/docs/SECURITY-PROCESS.md +++ b/docs/SECURITY-PROCESS.md @@ -274,3 +274,12 @@ do not consider it a security problem. curl cannot protect against attacks where an attacker has write access to the same directory where curl is directed to save files. + +## Tricking a user to run a command line + +A creative, misleading or funny looking command line is not a security +problem. The curl command line tool takes options and URLs on the command line +and if an attacker can trick the user to run a specifically crafted curl +command line, all bets are off. Such an attacker can just as well have the +user run a much worse command that can do something fatal (like +`sudo rm -rf /`).