SB2016100416 - Improper Authentication in curl.haxx.se cURL

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SB2016100416 - Improper Authentication in curl.haxx.se cURL

Published: October 4, 2016 Updated: July 28, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2016100416
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Improper Authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7141)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References