CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8616
5.9 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255, CWE-592
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.
Affected configurations
• haxx curl (< 7.51.0)
Related
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 Third Party Advisory