CVE-2021-22890

low

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0007/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-36

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KQUIOYX2KUU6FIUZVB5WWZ6JHSSYSQWJ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ITVWPVGLFISU5BJC2BXBRYSDXTXE2YGC/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ZC5BMIOKLBQJSFCHEDN2G2C2SH274BP/

https://hackerone.com/reports/1129529

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22890.html

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-04-01

Updated: 2024-03-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Low