CVE-2016-8616
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 3.7 Low
- Published
- Aug 1, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2016
Description
A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 3.7 Low | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
curlThe Curl Project |
|
References
- 94094vdb-entry
- RHSA-2018:3558vendor-advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch
- 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
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