CVE-2016-9594
MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 23, 2018 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:56 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCurl
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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
SSVC
No known exploit
Description
curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04SSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact
SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.
CVSS
6.5MEDIUMredhat
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- LOW
- Integrity
- LOW
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-665
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