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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-22876

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-jjr6-2g8j-hmwr

Published

May 24, 2022 5:46 PM

Last Modified

March 27, 2024 6:32 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 15, 2025 6:24 AM

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