curl 7.61.0 through 7.76.1 suffers from exposure of data element to wrong session due to a mistake in the code for CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST when libcurl is built to use the Schannel TLS library. The selected cipher set was stored in a single "static" variable in the library, which has the surprising side-effect that if an application sets up multiple concurrent transfers, the last one that sets the ciphers will accidentally control the set used by all transfers. In a worst-case scenario, this weakens transport security significantly.
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"status": "Modified"
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"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22897",
"id": "CVE-2021-22897",
"imported": "2026-08-16T08:05:12.414Z",
"modified": "2026-06-17T03:37:58.520Z",
"published": "2021-06-11T16:15:10.963Z",
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