vulnerability

Nginx: 1-byte memory overwrite in resolver (CVE-2021-3618)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 23, 2022
Added
Feb 10, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

nginx-nginx-upgrade-1_21_0
Title
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