CVE-2021-22876 Information

Description

curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an \Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor\ by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22876.html https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22876.html https://hackerone.com/reports/1101882 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ITVWPVGLFISU5BJC2BXBRYSDXTXE2YGC/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KQUIOYX2KUU6FIUZVB5WWZ6JHSSYSQWJ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ZC5BMIOKLBQJSFCHEDN2G2C2SH274BP/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00019.html [debian-lts-announce] 20210517 [SECURITY] [DLA 2664-1] curl security update https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0007/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-36 https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an \Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request. cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl::::::::

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3