CVE-2016-8625

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
The Curl Project	curl	7.51.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94107Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8625Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patchPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47Third Party Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94107Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8625Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patchPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47Third Party Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21Third Party Advisory

Timeline

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

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