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CVE record · CVE-2021-22946

Cleartext transmission of sensitive information in https://github.com/curl/curl

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.045 · 91st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: hackerone) at 29 Sept 2021, 00:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given https://github.com/curl/curl
  • affected curl 7.20.0 to and including 7.78.0
Identifiers
CVE-2021-22946
CNA
hackerone
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-319 · CWE-325
Tags
Published
29 Sept 2021
Updated
14 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.045, the 91st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 29 Sept 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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