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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8616 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-592 DEPRECATED: Authentication Bypass Issues Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-8616
NVD Published Date:
08/01/2018
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.