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ALPINE-CVE-2021-22890

ALPINE-CVE-2021-22890 PUBLISHED CVSS 3.700000047683716 LOW

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
3.700000047683716
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.20curl7.75.0-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.23curl7.46.0-r2, 7.75.0-r0, 7.74.0-r0
Alpine:v3.13curl7.45.0-r0, 7.74.0-r1, 7.74.0-r0
Alpine:v3.19curl7.25.0-r0, 7.24.0-r0, 7.23.1-r0
Alpine:v3.16curl7.21.2-r0, 7.23.1-r0, 7.22.0-r0
Alpine:v3.12curl7.65.3-r0, 7.66.0-r0, 7.68.0-r0
Alpine:v3.21curl7.50.2-r0, 7.19.2-r1, 7.19.4-r0
Alpine:v3.15curl7.75.0-r0, 7.19.2-r0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.22curl7.49.1-r0, 7.49.0-r0, 7.48.0-r0
Alpine:v3.17curl7.20.1-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.18curl7.62.0-r0, 7.19.2-r0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.14curl0, 7.75.0-r0, 7.74.0-r0

Timeline

  • Apr 1, 2021 CVE Published
  • Dec 3, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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