CURL-CVE-2016-8616
- Source
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2016-8616.html
- Import Source
- https://curl.se/docs/CURL-CVE-2016-8616.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CURL-CVE-2016-8616
- Aliases
- Published
- 2016-11-02T08:00:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-27T10:58:29Z
- Summary
- case insensitive password comparison
- Details
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When reusing a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of username 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.
- Database specific
{ "affects": "both", "CWE": { "desc": "Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity", "id": "CWE-178" }, "last_affected": "7.50.3", "severity": "Medium", "www": "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2016-8616.html", "package": "curl", "URL": "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2016-8616.json" }- References
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- Credits
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- Cure53 - FINDER
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- Daniel Stenberg - REMEDIATION_DEVELOPER
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Affected packages
Git /
Affected versions
7.*
7.10
7.10.1
7.10.2
7.10.3
7.10.4
7.10.5
7.10.6
7.10.7
7.10.8
7.11.0
7.11.1
7.11.2
7.12.0
7.12.1
7.12.2
7.12.3
7.13.0
7.13.1
7.13.2
7.14.0
7.14.1
7.15.0
7.15.1
7.15.2
7.15.3
7.15.4
7.15.5
7.16.0
7.16.1
7.16.2
7.16.3
7.16.4
7.17.0
7.17.1
7.18.0
7.18.1
7.18.2
7.19.0
7.19.1
7.19.2
7.19.3
7.19.4
7.19.5
7.19.6
7.19.7
7.20.0
7.20.1
7.21.0
7.21.1
7.21.2
7.21.3
7.21.4
7.21.5
7.21.6
7.21.7
7.22.0
7.23.0
7.23.1
7.24.0
7.25.0
7.26.0
7.27.0
7.28.0
7.28.1
7.29.0
7.30.0
7.31.0
7.32.0
7.33.0
7.34.0
7.35.0
7.36.0
7.37.0
7.37.1
7.38.0
7.39.0
7.40.0
7.41.0
7.42.0
7.42.1
7.43.0
7.44.0
7.45.0
7.46.0
7.47.0
7.47.1
7.48.0
7.49.0
7.49.1
7.50.0
7.50.1
7.50.2
7.50.3
7.7
7.7.1
7.7.2
7.7.3
7.8
7.8.1
7.9
7.9.1
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