CVE-2016-8615
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Aug 1, 2018
- Updated
- Apr 16, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2016
Description
A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51. If cookie state is written into a cookie jar file that is later read back and used for subsequent requests, a malicious HTTP server can inject new cookies for arbitrary domains into said cookie jar.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
curlThe Curl Project |
|
References
- RHSA-2018:3558vendor-advisory
- 94096vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8615
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8615.patch
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102A.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21
- 1037192vdb-entry
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- RHSA-2018:2486vendor-advisory
- GLSA-201701-47vendor-advisory
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
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