CVE-2021-22890

LOW
3.7
CVSS Score
Published: April 1, 2021 at 05:46 PM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 11:16 AM UTC
12 products affected across 8 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraSolidfire

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Severity
LOW3.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
SSVC
PoC

Description

curl 7.63.0 to and including 7.75.0 includes vulnerability that allows a malicious HTTPS proxy to MITM a connection due to bad handling of TLS 1.3 session tickets. When using a HTTPS proxy and TLS 1.3, libcurl can confuse session tickets arriving from the HTTPS proxy but work as if they arrived from the remote server and then wrongly "short-cut" the host handshake. When confusing the tickets, a HTTPS proxy can trick libcurl to use the wrong session ticket resume for the host and thereby circumvent the server TLS certificate check and make a MITM attack to be possible to perform unnoticed. Note that such a malicious HTTPS proxy needs to provide a certificate that curl will accept for the MITMed server for an attack to work - unless curl has been told to ignore the server certificate check.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

7.63.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.75.0
All versions
v < 1.0.1.1
Affected range stops below 1.0.1.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
8.2.0 ≤ v < 8.2.129.0.0 ≤ v < 9.0.69.1.0
Affected range stops below 8.2.12, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 9.0.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (11)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-300CWE-290

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