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CVE-2016-9594

high

Description

curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-04-23

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01146