CVE-2016-8616
5.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 4.5%
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-8616
To remediate CVE-2016-8616, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 7.51.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 7.51.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-8616 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 4.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 7.51.0-r0
- from 0, < 7.51.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |