CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7141

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-10-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-10-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

Affected configurations

• opensuse leap 42.1 • haxx libcurl (<= 7.50.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References