CVE-2022-42916

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Publication date:

29/10/2022

Last modified:

07/11/2023

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl::::::::	7.77.0 (including)	7.86.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::		12.6.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::	13.0 (including)	13.2 (excluding)

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CVE-2022-42916

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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