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CVE-2021-22923

Is CVE-2021-22923 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

signals

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Exploited in wild
Not listed
CISA KEV
Public exploit
None known
Metasploit/EDB/PoC
Base severity
5.3 Medium
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
2%
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
CWE-319
CWE

Moderate signals. Triage by your actual exposure and reachability.

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

When curl is instructed to get content using the metalink feature, and a user name and password are used to download the metalink XML file, those same credentials are then subsequently passed on to each of the servers from which curl will download or try to download the contents from. Often contrary to the user's expectations and intentions and without telling the user it happened.

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    Field note · TruePositive EditorialCurated

    No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation or public exploit was found for this yet.

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Same weakness: CWE-319.