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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8616

DEBIAN-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 v3.0
5.900000095367432
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13curl0, 0, 0
Debian:14curl0, 0, 0
Debian:12curl0, 0, 0
Debian:11curl0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Aug 1, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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