Description
curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an "Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor" by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.
Published: 2021-04-01
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2664-1 curl security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4881-1 curl security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-10011 curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an "Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor" by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4898-1 curl vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4903-1 curl vulnerability
History

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Broadcom Fabric Operating System
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Haxx Libcurl
Netapp Hci Compute Node Hci Management Node Hci Storage Node Solidfire
Oracle Communications Billing And Revenue Management Essbase
Redhat Enterprise Linux Jboss Core Services Rhel Dotnet
Siemens Sinec Infrastructure Network Services
Splunk Universal Forwarder
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-09T14:54:59.891Z

Reserved: 2021-01-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-22876

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:51:07.627Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-04-01T18:15:12.823

Modified: 2025-06-09T15:15:23.067

Link: CVE-2021-22876

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-03-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-22876 - Bugzilla

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