CVE-2016-8616

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-592CWE-255

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
The Curl Projectcurl7.51.0

References

Timeline

Published
Aug 1, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-8616: Medium severity, CVSS 5.9 | Vulnix