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.
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Information
Published : 2022-10-28 19:15
Updated : 2023-02-10 08:04
NVD link : CVE-2022-42916
Mitre link : CVE-2022-42916
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CWE
CWE-319
Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Products Affected
fedoraproject
- fedora
apple
- macos
haxx
- curl