When curl is instructed to download content using the metalink feature, thecontents is verified against a hash provided in the metalink XML file.The metalink XML file points out to the client how to get the same contentfrom a set of different URLs, potentially hosted by different servers and theclient can then download the file from one or several of them. In a serial orparallel manner.If one of the servers hosting the contents has been breached and the contentsof the specific file on that server is replaced with a modified payload, curlshould detect this when the hash of the file mismatches after a completeddownload. It should remove the contents and instead try getting the contentsfrom another URL. This is not done, and instead such a hash mismatch is onlymentioned in text and the potentially malicious content is kept in the file ondisk.
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"license": "CC-BY-4.0",
"sources": [
{
"database_specific": {
"status": "Modified"
},
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22922",
"id": "CVE-2021-22922",
"imported": "2026-08-16T08:05:12.477Z",
"modified": "2026-06-17T03:38:01.807Z",
"published": "2021-08-05T21:15:11.173Z",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2021-22922"
}
]
}