CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8625
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- 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-20
Description
curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.
Affected configurations
• haxx curl (< 7.51.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94107 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-2016-8625 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94107 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-2016-8625 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 Third Party Advisory