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CVE-2016-8616

Published: Aug 1, 2018

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

3.7

LOW

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
The Curl Project	curl	affected `7.51.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616

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https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch

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https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21

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vdb-entry

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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