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ALPINE-CVE-2016-8616

ALPINE-CVE-2016-8616 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.900000095367432 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
5.900000095367432
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.13curl7.37.0-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.12curl0, 7.19.2-r0, 7.19.4-r0
Alpine:v3.23curl7.19.7-r1, 7.19.7-r0, 7.19.5-r0
Alpine:v3.15curl7.19.2-r0, 7.19.7-r0, 7.20.1-r0
Alpine:v3.24curl0
Alpine:v3.19curl7.50.3-r1, 7.50.3-r0, 7.50.2-r0
Alpine:v3.21curl7.21.4-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.9curl0, 7.50.3-r1, 7.50.3-r0
Alpine:v3.4curl7.49.0-r0, 0, 7.19.4-r0
Alpine:v3.20curl7.22.0-r0, 7.23.1-r0, 7.24.0-r0
Alpine:v3.17curl7.44.0-r0, 7.19.2-r1, 7.19.4-r0
Alpine:v3.6curl0, 7.19.2-r0, 0
Alpine:v3.14curl7.50.1-r0, 7.19.2-r1, 7.19.4-r0
Alpine:v3.8curl7.23.1-r0, 7.27.0-r1, 7.28.1-r0
Alpine:v3.16curl7.19.7-r1, 0, 7.19.2-r1
Alpine:v3.2curl7.21.0-r0, 7.21.1-r0, 7.21.2-r0
Alpine:v3.5curl7.21.7-r2, 7.23.1-r0, 7.37.0-r0
Alpine:v3.22curl7.19.4-r0, 7.44.0-r0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.18curl0, 7.36.0-r0, 7.38.0-r0
Alpine:v3.3curl7.49.1-r3, 7.49.1-r2, 7.49.1-r1

…and 3 more

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Aug 1, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Jun 9, 2026 CVE Updated
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