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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2021-22876

curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an "Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor" by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.

Products
curl
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
7.74.0-1.2
CVEs
CVE-2021-22876
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 16:16 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-22876

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Apr 2021, 18:15 UTC

curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an "Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor" by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-22876

curl

Fixed versions: 7.74.0-1.2

curl

Fixed versions: 7.74.0-1.2

curl

Fixed versions: 7.74.0-1.2

Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-22876",
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      "modified": "2026-10-15T09:47:27.823731583Z",
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      ]
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
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