CVE-2022-42916

NameCVE-2022-42916
DescriptionIn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
curl (PTS)buster7.64.0-4+deb10u2fixed
buster (security)7.64.0-4+deb10u9fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye7.74.0-1.3+deb11u11vulnerable (unimportant)
bookworm, bookworm (security)7.88.1-10+deb12u5fixed
trixie8.5.0-2fixed
sid8.7.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
curlsourcebuster(not affected)
curlsource(unstable)7.86.0-1

Notes

[bullseye] - curl <ignored> (curl is not built with HSTS support)
[buster] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2022-42916.html
Introduced with: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/7385610d0c74c6a254fea5e4cd6e1d559d848c8c (curl-7_74_0)
Enabled by default since: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d71ff2b9db566b3f4b2eb29441c2df86715d4339 (curl-7_77_0)
Fixed by: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/53bcf55b4538067e6dc36242168866becb987bb7 (curl-7_86_0)

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