CVE-2016-8616

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8616
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8616.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8616
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-08-01T06:29:00.287Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:44:14.294452Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/curl/curl

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/curl/curl
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
3c561c657c2f0e553b19115a506592a8bbd744bc
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "7.51.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

Other
before_ftp_statemachine
before_urldata_rename
curl-6_5
curl-6_5_1
curl-6_5_2
curl-7_10
curl-7_10_1
curl-7_10_2
curl-7_10_3
curl-7_10_4
curl-7_10_5
curl-7_10_6
curl-7_10_7
curl-7_10_8
curl-7_11_0
curl-7_11_1
curl-7_11_2
curl-7_12_0
curl-7_12_1
curl-7_12_2
curl-7_12_3
curl-7_13_0
curl-7_13_1
curl-7_13_2
curl-7_14_0
curl-7_14_1
curl-7_15_0
curl-7_15_1
curl-7_15_2
curl-7_15_3
curl-7_15_4
curl-7_15_5
curl-7_15_6-prepipeline
curl-7_16_0
curl-7_16_1
curl-7_16_2
curl-7_16_3
curl-7_16_4
curl-7_17_0
curl-7_17_0-preldapfix
curl-7_17_1
curl-7_18_0
curl-7_18_1
curl-7_18_2
curl-7_19_0
curl-7_19_1
curl-7_19_2
curl-7_19_3
curl-7_19_4
curl-7_19_5
curl-7_19_6
curl-7_19_7
curl-7_1_1
curl-7_2
curl-7_20_0
curl-7_20_1
curl-7_21_0
curl-7_21_1
curl-7_21_2
curl-7_21_3
curl-7_21_4
curl-7_21_5
curl-7_21_6
curl-7_21_7
curl-7_22_0
curl-7_23_0
curl-7_23_1
curl-7_25_0
curl-7_26_0
curl-7_27_0
curl-7_28_0
curl-7_28_1
curl-7_29_0
curl-7_3
curl-7_30_0
curl-7_31_0
curl-7_32_0
curl-7_33_0
curl-7_34_0
curl-7_35_0
curl-7_36_0
curl-7_37_0
curl-7_37_1
curl-7_38_0
curl-7_39_0
curl-7_40_0
curl-7_41_0
curl-7_42_0
curl-7_43_0
curl-7_44_0
curl-7_45_0
curl-7_46_0
curl-7_47_0
curl-7_47_1
curl-7_48_0
curl-7_49_0
curl-7_49_1
curl-7_4_1
curl-7_5
curl-7_50_0
curl-7_50_1
curl-7_50_2
curl-7_50_3
curl-7_5_2
curl-7_6
curl-7_6-pre4
curl-7_6_1
curl-7_6_1-pre1
curl-7_6_1-pre2
curl-7_6_1-pre3
curl-7_7
curl-7_7-beta1
curl-7_7-beta2
curl-7_7-beta3
curl-7_7-beta5
curl-7_7_1
curl-7_7_2
curl-7_7_3
curl-7_7_alpha2
curl-7_8
curl-7_8-pre2
curl-7_8_1
curl-7_8_1-pre3
curl-7_9
curl-7_9_1
curl-7_9_2
curl-7_9_3
curl-7_9_3-pre1
curl-7_9_3-pre2
curl-7_9_3-pre3
curl-7_9_4
curl-7_9_5
curl-7_9_5-pre2
curl-7_9_5-pre4
curl-7_9_6
curl-7_9_7
curl-7_9_7-pre2
curl-7_9_8
curl_7_6-pre3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8616.json"