Homepage
About Snyk

Missing Initialization of Resource Affecting curl package, versions <7.79.1-1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.2% (59th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-CURL-1544025
  • published 26 May 2021
  • disclosed 11 Jun 2021
Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 26 May 2021

CVE-2021-22898 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-909 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 curl to version 7.79.1-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

curl 7.7 through 7.76.1 suffers from an information disclosure when the -t command line option, known as CURLOPT_TELNETOPTIONS in libcurl, is used to send variable=content pairs to TELNET servers. Due to a flaw in the option parser for sending NEW_ENV variables, libcurl could be made to pass on uninitialized data from a stack based buffer to the server, resulting in potentially revealing sensitive internal information to the server using a clear-text network protocol.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
Expand this section

NVD

3.1 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
Expand this section

SUSE

5.3 medium
Expand this section

Red Hat

3.1 low