CVE-2021-22898

2021-05-2609:45:53

redhat.com

access.redhat.com

3.1 Low

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

2.6 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

54.6%

JSON

A flaw was found in the way curl handled telnet protocol option for sending environment variables, which could lead to sending of uninitialized data from a stack-based buffer to the server. This issue leads to potentially revealing sensitive internal information to the server using a clear-text network protocol.

Mitigation

This issue can be avoided by not setting any telnet options for the curl command line tool (using the -t / --telnet-option command line option) or the libcurl library (using the CURLOPT_TELNETOPTIONS option) when telnet protocol is not meant to be used.

If telnet protocol needs to be used with curl / libcurl, along with the NEW_ENV telnet option, ensure that no environment variable set via the NEW_ENV option has the name or value longer than 127 bytes.