CVE-2021-3618

HIGH

F5 NGINX < 1.21.0 - Improper Certificate Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

ALPACA is an application layer protocol content confusion attack, exploiting TLS servers implementing different protocols but using compatible certificates, such as multi-domain or wildcard certificates. A MiTM attacker having access to victim's traffic at the TCP/IP layer can redirect traffic from one subdomain to another, resulting in a valid TLS session. This breaks the authentication of TLS and cross-protocol attacks may be possible where the behavior of one protocol service may compromise the other at the application layer.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00031.html
Third Party Advisory
https://alpaca-attack.com/
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975623

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0062
EPSS Percentile 70.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (7)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
f5/nginx < 1.21.0
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
sendmail/sendmail < 8.17
vsftpd_project/vsftpd < 3.0.4
Published Mar 23, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026