CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-42916

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-10-29 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-10-29
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-319

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.

Affected configurations

• haxx curl (>= 7.77.0 < 7.86.0) • fedoraproject fedora 35 • fedoraproject fedora 36 • fedoraproject fedora 37 • apple macos (< 12.6.3) • apple macos (>= 13.0 < 13.2) • splunk universal forwarder (>= 8.2.0 < 8.2.12) • splunk universal forwarder (>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.6) • splunk universal forwarder 9.1.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information weakness

References