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Credentials Management Affecting curl package, versions <7.35.0-1ubuntu2.10

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-CURL-358626
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed1 Aug 2018
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Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2016-8616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 curl to version 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.10 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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.