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CVE-2016-7141 Detail

Description

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  10/03/2016

Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.5 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 3.9

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.0 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00094.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2575.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92754 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036739 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373229 Issue Tracking
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160907.html Patch Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_50_2~32 Issue Tracking Patch
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

Technical Details

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-7141
NVD Published Date:
10/03/2016
NVD Last Modified:
10/30/2018