High severity · published Mar 23, 2022
CVE-2021-3618
ALPACA is an application layer protocol content confusion attack, exploiting TLS servers implementing different protocols but using compatible certificates, such as multi-domain…
7.4
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ALPACA is an application layer protocol content confusion attack, exploiting TLS servers implementing different protocols but using compatible certificates, such as multi-domain or wildcard certificates. A MiTM attacker having access to victim's traffic at the TCP/IP layer can redirect traffic from one subdomain to another, resulting in a valid TLS session. This breaks the authentication of TLS and cross-protocol attacks may be possible where the behavior of one protocol service may compromise the other at the application layer.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33; 34; 35 · source: NVD
NG
Nginx · F5
before 1.21.0 · source: NVD
SE
Sendmail · Sendmail
before 8.17 · source: NVD
VS
Vsftpd · Vsftpd Project
before 3.0.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3618
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3618
Third Party Advisory
https://alpaca-attack.com/
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975623
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00031.html
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