CVE-2021-3618
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:01
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://alpaca-attack.com/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975623Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/aALPACA
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