Cryptographic Issues Affecting curl package, versions [,7.50.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-2317482
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed10 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-5419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 7.50.1 or higher.

Overview

curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not prevent TLS session resumption when the client certificate has changed, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by resuming a session.

CVSS Scores

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