CVE-2016-8616medium
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Description
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.
References
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2018-08-01
Updated: 2019-10-09
Type: CWE-255
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 2.2
Severity: MEDIUM
Vulnerable Software
Configuration 1
OR
Tenable Plugins
| ID | Name | Product | Family | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140168 | OracleVM 3.4 : curl (OVMSA-2020-0035) | Nessus | OracleVM Local Security Checks | critical |
| 131701 | Juniper Junos Space < 19.2R1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (JSA10951) | Nessus | Junos Local Security Checks | critical |
| 125380 | Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : curl (ELSA-2019-4652) | Nessus | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | critical |
| 125003 | EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : curl (EulerOS-SA-2019-1550) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | critical |
| 105441 | F5 Networks BIG-IP : libcurl vulnerability (K52828640) | Nessus | F5 Networks Local Security Checks | medium |
| 99930 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop Multiple Vulnerabilities (April 2017 CPU) (SWEET32) | Nessus | Misc. | critical |
| 99881 | EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : curl (EulerOS-SA-2017-1036) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | critical |
| 99880 | EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : curl (EulerOS-SA-2017-1035) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | critical |
| 96644 | GLSA-201701-47 : cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities | Nessus | Gentoo Local Security Checks | critical |
| 95917 | macOS 10.12.x < 10.12.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities | Nessus | MacOS X Local Security Checks | high |
| 9826 | cURL/libcurl 7.x < 7.51.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities | Nessus Network Monitor | Web Clients | high |
| 95009 | Fedora 25 : curl (2016-89769648a0) | Nessus | Fedora Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94941 | Debian DLA-711-1 : curl security update | Nessus | Debian Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94752 | openSUSE Security Update : curl (openSUSE-2016-1280) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94686 | Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2016-766) | Nessus | Amazon Linux Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94592 | Fedora 24 : curl (2016-e8e8cdb4ed) | Nessus | Fedora Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94588 | Debian DSA-3705-1 : curl - security update | Nessus | Debian Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94574 | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : curl vulnerabilities (USN-3123-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94572 | SUSE SLES11 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2016:2714-1) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94516 | Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : curl (SSA:2016-308-01) | Nessus | Slackware Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94506 | SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2016:2699-1) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | critical |
| 94493 | FreeBSD : cURL -- multiple vulnerabilities (765feb7d-a0d1-11e6-a881-b499baebfeaf) | Nessus | FreeBSD Local Security Checks | critical |