CVE-2016-5420
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.1%Published: 8/10/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/curlfrom 0, < 7.50.1-r0
- Debian/curlfrom 0, < 7.50.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |