DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5420

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5420
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5420.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5420
Upstream
Published
2016-08-10T14:59:05Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:24Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS connection to reuse, which might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of the connection by leveraging a previously created connection with a different client certificate.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.50.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.50.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.50.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.50.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}