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CVE-2021-22890

Published: 4/1/2021 Last updated: 6/9/2025 Reserved: 1/6/2021

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.

CNA assigner: hackerone (36234546-b8fa-4601-9d6f-f4e334aa8ea1) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 4.3 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Opam packages affected (3)

conf-libcurl conf-mingw-w64-curl-i686 conf-mingw-w64-curl-x86_64

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
https://github.com/curl/curl n/a Prior to Version 3.0.14.0

References (18)