CVE-2021-22898

CVE-2021-22898

Vendor N/A
Product https://github.com/curl/curl
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published June 11, 2021
Last update April 16, 2026

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 11, 2021 CVE published
April 16, 2026 Record updated