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Credentials Management Affecting curl package, versions <7.51.0-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.57% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-CURL-7008596
  • published 23 May 2024
  • disclosed 1 Aug 2018
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Introduced: 1 Aug 2018

CVE-2016-8616 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-255 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-592 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 curl to version 7.51.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.