CVE-2021-22947
Severity
5.9MEDIUM
EPSS
0.3%
top 51.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 29
Latest updateMay 24
Description
When curl >= 7.20.0 and <= 7.78.0 connects to an IMAP or POP3 server to retrieve data using STARTTLS to upgrade to TLS security, the server can respond and send back multiple responses at once that curl caches. curl would then upgrade to TLS but not flush the in-queue of cached responses but instead continue using and trustingthe responses it got *before* the TLS handshake as if they were authenticated.Using this flaw, it allows a Man-In-The-Middle attacker to first inject the fake responses, th…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages16 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 11.0, 9.0, Fedora 33, 35