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DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42916

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42916 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

In curl before 7.86.0, the HSTS check could be bypassed to trick it into staying with HTTP. Using its HSTS support, curl can be instructed to use HTTPS directly (instead of using an insecure cleartext HTTP step) even when HTTP is provided in the URL. This mechanism could be bypassed if the host name in the given URL uses IDN characters that get replaced with ASCII counterparts as part of the IDN conversion, e.g., using the character UTF-8 U+3002 (IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP) instead of the common ASCII full stop of U+002E (.). The earliest affected version is 7.77.0 2021-05-26.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12curl0, 0, 0
Debian:11curl8.10.1-2, *, 8.7.1-3
Debian:14curl0, 0, 0
Debian:13curl0, 0, 0

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Oct 29, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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