CVE-2021-22876

Updated on 01 Apr 2021

Severity

5.3 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.3
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Overview

About vulnerability

curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an “Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor” by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.

Details

Affected packages:
curl @ 7.19.7 (+8 more)
curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an “Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor” by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.

Fixes