CVE-2021-22947

State
Published
Severity
5.9 Medium
Published
Sep 29, 2021
Updated
Oct 14, 2026
Reserved
Jan 6, 2021

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Description

When curl >= 7.20.0 and <= 7.78.0 connects to an IMAP or POP3 server to retrieve data using STARTTLS to upgrade to TLS security, the server can respond and send back multiple responses at once that curl caches. curl would then upgrade to TLS but not flush the in-queue of cached responses but instead continue using and trustingthe responses it got *before* the TLS handshake as if they were authenticated.Using this flaw, it allows a Man-In-The-Middle attacker to first inject the fake responses, then pass-through the TLS traffic from the legitimate server and trick curl into sending data back to the user thinking the attacker's injected data comes from the TLS-protected server.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues - Generic (CWE-310)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
https://github.com/curl/curln/a
  • curl 7.20.0 to and including 7.78.0Affected

References

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