{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2016-8616", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "curl", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "7.51.0" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "The Curl Project" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "impact": { "cvss": [ [ { "vectorString": "3.7/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N", "version": "3.0" } ], [ { "vectorString": "2.6/AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N", "version": "2.0" } ] ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-592" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "94094", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094" }, { "name": "RHSA-2018:3558", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558" }, { "name": "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616" }, { "name": "https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch" }, { "name": "https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21" }, { "name": "1037192", "refsource": "SECTRACK", "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192" }, { "name": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html" }, { "name": "RHSA-2018:2486", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486" }, { "name": "GLSA-201701-47", "refsource": "GENTOO", "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47" } ] } }