Improper Authentication Affecting curl package, versions <7.51.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-CURL-517241
  • published3 Oct 2016
  • disclosed3 Oct 2016

Introduced: 3 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-7141  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 curl to version 7.51.0-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.