CVE-2016-8616
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.47% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-08-01 06:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 02:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-10-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Low (CVSS 3.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d682ebc376cd59af79850bf9bb3c5a8d405de651f9a731c72d97da68f8bb2873
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com94094http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3558https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- curl.haxx.sehttps://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616
- curl.haxx.sehttps://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch
- www.tenable.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21
- www.securitytracker.com1037192http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:2486https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-47https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- curl Fixed in 7.51.0-1
- lib32-curl Fixed in 7.51.0-1
- lib32-libcurl-compat Fixed in 7.51.0-1
- lib32-libcurl-gnutls Fixed in 7.51.0-1
- libcurl-compat Fixed in 7.51.0-1
- libcurl-gnutls Fixed in 7.51.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- curl Fixed in 7.51.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- curl Fixed in 7.51.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- curl Fixed in 7.51.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- curl Fixed in 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.10
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- curl Fixed in 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.