CVE-2021-22890

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing in conan/libcurl

Identifiers

CVE-2021-22890

Package Slug

conan/libcurl

Vulnerability

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Description

curl to and including includes vulnerability that allows a malicious HTTPS proxy to MITM a connection due to bad handling of TLS session tickets. When using a HTTPS proxy and TLS, 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.

Affected Versions

All versions starting from 7.63.0 up to 7.75.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.76.0 or above.

Last Modified

2021-04-10

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