cve/2016/CVE-2016-8616.md

### [CVE-2016-8616](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8616)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list