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ALPINE-CVE-2021-22901

ALPINE-CVE-2021-22901 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.100000381469727 HIGH

curl 7.75.0 through 7.76.1 suffers from a use-after-free vulnerability resulting in already freed memory being used when a TLS 1.3 session ticket arrives over a connection. A malicious server can use this in rare unfortunate circumstances to potentially reach remote code execution in the client. When libcurl at run-time sets up support for TLS 1.3 session tickets on a connection using OpenSSL, it stores pointers to the transfer in-memory object for later retrieval when a session ticket arrives. If the connection is used by multiple transfers (like with a reused HTTP/1.1 connection or multiplexed HTTP/2 connection) that first transfer object might be freed before the new session is established on that connection and then the function will access a memory buffer that might be freed. When using that memory, libcurl might even call a function pointer in the object, making it possible for a remote code execution if the server could somehow manage to get crafted memory content into the correct place in memory.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
8.100000381469727
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.13curl7.56.0-r0, 7.21.4-r1, 7.21.4-r0
Alpine:v3.12curl7.21.5-r0, 7.21.4-r1, 7.21.3-r0
Alpine:v3.22curl7.19.2-r0, 7.75.0, 0
Alpine:v3.16curl7.21.4-r0, 7.21.3-r1, 7.21.3-r0
Alpine:v3.23curl7.69.1-r0, 7.75.0, 0
Alpine:v3.19curl0, 7.75.0, 0
Alpine:v3.14curl7.56.1-r0, 7.19.2-r1, 7.19.4-r0
Alpine:v3.18curl0, 7.19.2-r1, 7.19.5-r0
Alpine:v3.17curl7.37.0-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.20curl7.69.1-r0, 7.75.0, 0
Alpine:v3.24curl0, 7.75.0
Alpine:v3.15curl0, 7.21.6-r0, 7.21.4-r0
Alpine:v3.21curl0, 7.75.0, 0

Timeline

  • Jun 11, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Jul 8, 2026 CVE Updated
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