CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8616

DEPRECATED: Authentication Bypass Issues

Published: Aug 01, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
2.6 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
3.7 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

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.

Weakness

This weakness has been deprecated because it covered redundant concepts already described in CWE-287.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Curl Haxx * 7.51.0 (excluding)
Curl Ubuntu devel *
Curl Ubuntu precise *
Curl Ubuntu trusty *
Curl Ubuntu upstream *
Curl Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Curl Ubuntu vivid/ubuntu-core *
Curl Ubuntu xenial *
Curl Ubuntu yakkety *
Curl Ubuntu zesty *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat httpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat httpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS RedHat httpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS RedHat httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS RedHat httpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS RedHat httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS RedHat httpd24-curl-0:7.61.1-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-7.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS RedHat httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7 *
Text-Only JBCS RedHat curl *

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