Credentials management in curl.haxx.se cURL



Published: 2018-08-01 | Updated: 2020-08-03
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2016-8616
CWE-ID CWE-255
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
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Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Credentials management

EUVDB-ID: #VU33011

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.2 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-8616

CWE-ID: CWE-255 - Credentials Management

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

cURL: 7.1 - 7.50.3

External links

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192
http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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