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CVE-2016-7141

Improper Authentication

Published: Oct 03, 2016 | Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
4.9 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
4.2 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7141
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LeapOpensuse42.1 (including)42.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatcurl-0:7.29.0-35.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Core ServicesRedHat*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHathttpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHathttpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHathttpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHathttpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSRedHathttpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSRedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSRedHathttpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSRedHathttpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSRedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSRedHathttpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSRedHathttpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSRedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSRedHathttpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7*
CurlUbuntudevel*
CurlUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
CurlUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/xenial*
CurlUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
CurlUbuntuprecise*
CurlUbuntutrusty*
CurlUbuntutrusty/esm*
CurlUbuntuupstream*
CurlUbuntuvivid/stable-phone-overlay*
CurlUbuntuvivid/ubuntu-core*
CurlUbuntuxenial*
CurlUbuntuyakkety*
CurlUbuntuzesty*

Potential Mitigations

References

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