# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-22901"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2021-06-11T15:49:38.000Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-14T10:31:25.845Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:26.894Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-22901"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-22901.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22901"
title: null
summary: "curl 7.75.0 through 7.76.1 suffers from a use-after-free vulnerability resulting in already freed memory being used when a TLS 1.3 session ticket arrives over a connection. A malicious server can use this in rare unfortunate circumstances to potentially reach remote code execution in the client. When libcurl at run-time sets up support for TLS 1.3 session tickets on a connection using OpenSSL, it stores pointers to the transfer in-memory object for later retrieval when a session ticket arrives. If the connection is used by multiple transfers (like with a reused HTTP/1.1 connection or multiplexed HTTP/2 connection) that first transfer object might be freed before the new session is established on that connection and then the function will access a memory buffer that might be freed. When using that memory, libcurl might even call a function pointer in the object, making it possible for a remote code execution if the server could somehow manage to get crafted memory content into the correct place in memory."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7.75.0 through 7.76.1","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"n/a","product":"https://github.com/curl/curl"}]

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