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.
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
Source: MITRE
Published: 2018-08-01
Updated: 2019-10-09
Type: CWE-255
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
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