CVE-2022-32221 is a critical vulnerability in libcurl, affecting products like Apple, Debian, and Splunk, where a reused handle transitioning from a PUT to a POST request can erroneously invoke the read callback, potentially leading to incorrect data transmission, memory corruption, or application misbehavior. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 7.86.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:clustered_data_ontap:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
CVE-2022-32221
Jun 11, 2024August Third Party Package Updates in Splunk Universal Forwarder
Aug 30, 2023When doing HTTP(S) transfers libcurl might erroneously use the read callback (`CURLOPT_READFUNCTION`) to ask for data to send even when the `CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS` option has been set if the same handle previously was used to issue a `PUT` request which used that callback. This flaw may surprise the application and cause it to misbehave and either send off the wrong data or use memory after free or similar in the subsequent `POST` request. The problem exists in the logic for a reused handle when it is changed from a PUT to a POST.
Dec 13, 2022curl: POST following PUT confusion
Oct 26, 2022POST following PUT confusion
Oct 26, 2022