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CURL-CVE-2021-22926

Published Jul 21, 2021·Last modified Apr 25, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

libcurl-using applications can ask for a specific client certificate to be used in a transfer. This is done with the CURLOPT_SSLCERT option (--cert with the command line tool).

When libcurl is built to use the macOS native TLS library Secure Transport, an application can ask for the client certificate by name or with a filename - using the same option. If the name exists as a file, it is used instead of by name.

If the application runs with a current working directory that is writable by other users (like /tmp), a malicious user can create a filename with the same name as the app wants to use by name, and thereby trick the application to use the file based cert instead of the one referred to by name making libcurl send the wrong client certificate in the TLS connection handshake.

Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
9.82%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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