CVE-2021-3618
Published: Mar 23, 2022
Modified: Aug 3, 2024
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | ALPACA | affected vsftpd 3.0.4, nginx 1.21.0, sendmail 8.17 |
Weaknesses (CWE)
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