cURL up to 7.78.0 TLS Policy cryptographic issue

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in cURL up to 7.78.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component TLS Policy Handler. This manipulation causes cryptographic issue. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-22947. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in cURL up to 7.78.0 (Network Utility Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component TLS Policy Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-310. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality.

The weakness was shared 09/30/2021. The advisory is shared at hackerone.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2021-22947 since 01/06/2021. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1600 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 236591 (Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0078: curl (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0078)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (236591). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Network Utility Software

Name

• cURL

Version

• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3
• 7.4
• 7.5
• 7.6
• 7.7
• 7.8
• 7.9
• 7.10
• 7.11
• 7.12
• 7.13
• 7.14
• 7.15
• 7.16
• 7.17
• 7.18
• 7.19
• 7.20
• 7.21
• 7.22
• 7.23
• 7.24
• 7.25
• 7.26
• 7.27
• 7.28
• 7.29
• 7.30
• 7.31
• 7.32
• 7.33
• 7.34
• 7.35
• 7.36
• 7.37
• 7.38
• 7.39
• 7.40
• 7.41
• 7.42
• 7.43
• 7.44
• 7.45
• 7.46
• 7.47
• 7.48
• 7.49
• 7.50
• 7.51
• 7.52
• 7.53
• 7.54
• 7.55
• 7.56
• 7.57
• 7.58
• 7.59
• 7.60
• 7.61
• 7.62
• 7.63
• 7.64
• 7.65
• 7.66
• 7.67
• 7.68
• 7.69
• 7.70
• 7.71
• 7.72
• 7.73
• 7.74
• 7.75
• 7.76
• 7.77
• 7.78.0

License

• open-source

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