CVE-2016-8616
LOW
3.7
CVSS Score
Published: August 1, 2018 at 06:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:54 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCurl
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Severity
LOW3.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patchx_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.htmlCVSS
3.7LOWredhat
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- LOW
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-592CWE-255
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