curl 7.63.0 to and including 7.75.0 includes vulnerability that allows a malicious HTTPS proxy to MITM a connection due to bad handling of TLS 1.3 session tickets. When using a HTTPS proxy and TLS 1.3, libcurl can confuse session tickets arriving from the HTTPS proxy but work as if they arrived from the remote server and then wrongly "short-cut" the host handshake. When confusing the tickets, a HTTPS proxy can trick libcurl to use the wrong session ticket resume for the host and thereby circumvent the server TLS certificate check and make a MITM attack to be possible to perform unnoticed. Note that such a malicious HTTPS proxy needs to provide a certificate that curl will accept for the MITMed server for an attack to work - unless curl has been told to ignore the server certificate check.
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"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22890",
"imported": "2025-10-10T14:33:22.317Z",
"id": "CVE-2021-22890",
"modified": "2025-06-09T15:15:24.177Z",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2021-22890",
"published": "2021-04-01T18:15:12.917Z"
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