CVE-2016-7141
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.52%curl - security update
Published: 10/3/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/curlfrom 0, < 7.50.2-r0
- Debian/curlfrom 0, < 7.51.0-1
- Debian/curlfrom 0, < 7.38.0-4+deb8u13
- Debian/curlfrom 0, < 7.26.0-1+wheezy15
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 |