CVE-2016-9594

HighCVSS 8.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-665

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
unspecified	curl	curl 7.52.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.htmlVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47Third Party Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.htmlVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47Third Party Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 23, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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