curl 7.7 through 7.76.1 suffers from an information disclosure when the -t command line option, known as CURLOPT_TELNETOPTIONS in libcurl, is used to send variable=content pairs to TELNET servers. Due to a flaw in the option parser for sending NEW_ENV variables, libcurl could be made to pass on uninitialized data from a stack based buffer to the server, resulting in potentially revealing sensitive internal information to the server using a clear-text network protocol.
CVE-2021-22898
Score 3.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 3.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 3.1
- EG Score
- 3.1(medium)
- EPSS
- 90.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 11, 2021
Last Modified
April 16, 2026
References (28)
- support@hackeronehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/21/4
- support@hackeronehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
- support@hackeronehttps://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22898.html
- support@hackeronehttps://github.com/curl/curl/commit/39ce47f219b09c380b81f89fe54ac586c8db6bde
- support@hackeronehttps://hackerone.com/reports/1176461
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc713534b10f9daeee2e0990239fa407e2118e4aa9e88a7041177497c%40%3Cissues.guacamole.apache.org%3E
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00017.html
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00017.html
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FRUCW2UVNYUDZF72DQLFQR4PJEC6CF7V/
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POOC3UV7V6L4CJ5KA2PTWTNUV5Y72T3Q/
- support@hackeronehttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5197
- support@hackeronehttps://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- support@hackeronehttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- support@hackeronehttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/21/4
Patch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libcurl4-openssl-dev (7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm3) @ xenial | 2026-05-22 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | curl (7.74.0-1ubuntu2.1) @ hirsute | 2026-05-22 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | curl (7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm7) @ xenial | 2026-05-22 | ubuntu |
| redhat | curl-0:7.61.1-22.el8 | 2021-11-09 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
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- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2021-228982021-06-23
curl 7.7 through 7.76.1 suffers from an information disclosure when the `-t` command line option known as `CURLOPT_TELNETOPTIONS` in libcurl is used to send variable=content pairs to TELNET servers. Due to a flaw in the option parser for sending NEW_ENV variables libcurl could be made to pass on uninitialized data from a stack based buffer to the server resulting in potentially revealing sensitive internal information to the server using a clear-text network protocol.
- Red HatRHSA-2021:4511LOW2021-05-26
RHSA-2021:4511 — Low
- UbuntuUSN-5021-1LOW
curl vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-5021-2LOW
curl vulnerability
- UbuntuUSN-5894-1LOW
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