CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9594
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-04-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-665
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.
Affected configurations
• haxx curl (< 7.52.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04 Third Party Advisory