vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-42916): curl vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N) | Oct 26, 2022 | Oct 27, 2022 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 26, 2022
Added
Oct 27, 2022
Modified
Aug 18, 2025
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.
Solutions
ubuntu-upgrade-curlubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-gnutlsubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-nssubuntu-upgrade-libcurl4
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