CVE-2016-8616 LOW

CVE-2016-8616

Vendor The Curl Project
Product curl
Weakness CWE-592
Published August 1, 2018
Last update August 6, 2024

CVSS base score

3.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 1, 2018 CVE published
August 6, 2024 Record updated