CVE-2021-22922

medium Splunk
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 65% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Published: August 5, 2021 (1743 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Splunk
Source: NVD

Description

When curl is instructed to download content using the metalink feature, thecontents is verified against a hash provided in the metalink XML file.The metalink XML file points out to the client how to get the same contentfrom a set of different URLs, potentially hosted by different servers and theclient can then download the file from one or several of them. In a serial orparallel manner.If one of the servers hosting the contents has been breached and the contentsof the specific file on that server is replaced with a modified payload, curlshould detect this when the hash of the file mismatches after a completeddownload. It should remove the contents and instead try getting the contentsfrom another URL. This is not done, and instead such a hash mismatch is onlymentioned in text and the potentially malicious content is kept in the file ondisk.

CWE

CWE-840

Affected Products

haxx curlfedoraproject fedoranetapp cloud backupnetapp clustered data ontapnetapp hci management nodenetapp solidfireoracle mysql serversiemens sinec infrastructure network servicesnetapp h300s firmwarenetapp h500s firmware

References