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Improper Certificate Validation Affecting curl package, versions <0:7.29.0-35.el7

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-CURL-7957499
  • published14 Sept 2024
  • disclosed5 Sept 2016
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Introduced: 5 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7141  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 curl to version 0:7.29.0-35.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:2575.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.