ALPINE-CVE-2016-7141 — Vulnetix

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ALPINE-CVE-2016-7141 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

7.5

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

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.2	curl	7.21.7-r1, 7.21.7-r2, 7.22.0-r0
Alpine:v3.20	curl	0, 7.19.2-r0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.7	curl	7.26.0-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.6	curl	7.50.0-r0, 7.50.1-r0, 7.50.0-r0
Alpine:v3.9	curl	7.21.7-r2, 7.28.1-r0, 7.42.0-r0
Alpine:v3.23	curl	7.41.0-r0, 7.50.1-r0, 7.50.0-r0
Alpine:v3.10	curl	7.19.2-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.22	curl	7.21.6-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.16	curl	7.19.2-r0, 7.19.2-r1, 7.19.4-r0
Alpine:v3.13	curl	7.29.0-r0, 7.22.0-r0, 7.23.1-r0
Alpine:v3.21	curl	7.46.0-r1, 0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.19	curl	7.21.4-r1, 0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.11	curl	7.21.1-r0, 7.27.0-r0, 7.42.1-r0
Alpine:v3.17	curl	7.21.4-r0, 7.21.4-r1, 7.21.5-r0
Alpine:v3.5	curl	7.33.0-r1, 7.42.1-r0, 7.42.0-r0
Alpine:v3.3	curl	7.21.4-r0, 7.21.5-r0, 7.21.5-r1
Alpine:v3.4	curl	7.21.1-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.18	curl	7.50.1-r0, 7.42.1-r0, 7.42.0-r0
Alpine:v3.8	curl	7.42.0-r0, 7.19.2-r0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.15	curl	7.43.0-r0, 7.42.1-r1, 7.42.1-r0

…and 2 more

Timeline

Oct 3, 2016 CVE Published
Dec 3, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-7141 advisory

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