<p>Upgrade <code>Alpine:3.16</code> <code>curl</code> to version 7.83.1-r4 or higher.</p>

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting curl package, versions <7.83.1-r4

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Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE316-CURL-3063713
published 26 Oct 2022
disclosed 29 Oct 2022

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Introduced: 26 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-42916 Open this link in a new tab CWE-319 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.16 curl to version 7.83.1-r4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.16 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

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

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting curl package, versions <7.83.1-r4

Severity

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