CVE-2021-22890

LOW

curl/libcurl 7.63.0-7.75.0 - HTTPS Proxy MITM via TLS Session Tickets

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

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 (9)

Core 9
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://hackerone.com/reports/1129529
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22890.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-36
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0007/
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf

Scores

CVSS v3 3.7
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 25.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-290 CWE-300
Status published
Products (14)
broadcom/fabric_operating_system
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 32
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
haxx/libcurl 7.63.0 - 7.75.0
netapp/hci_management_node
netapp/hci_storage_node
netapp/solidfire
oracle/communications_billing_and_revenue_management 12.0.0.3.0
... and 4 more
Published Apr 01, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026