Security Advisory

CVE-2021-22925

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-08-05 00:00:00
Last updated 2026-04-16 16:36:24
Assigner hackerone
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

curl supports the `-t` command line option, known as `CURLOPT_TELNETOPTIONS`in libcurl. This rarely used option is used to send variable=content pairs toTELNET servers.Due to flaw in the option parser for sending `NEW_ENV` variables, libcurlcould be made to pass on uninitialized data from a stack based buffer to theserver. Therefore potentially revealing sensitive internal information to theserver using a clear-text network protocol.This could happen because curl did not call and use sscanf() correctly whenparsing the string provided by the application.