CVE-2016-9594 MEDIUM

CVE-2016-9594

Vendor Unspecified
Product curl
Weakness CWE-665
Published April 23, 2018
Last update April 15, 2026

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 23, 2018 CVE published
April 15, 2026 Record updated