CVE-2017-8816
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.45%curl - security update
Published: 11/29/2017Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-8816DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8816
Description
The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/curlfrom 0, < 7.57.0-r0
- Debian/curlfrom 0, < 7.57.0-1
- Debian/curlfrom 0, < 7.38.0-4+deb8u8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |