Improper Initialization in cURL - CVE-2016-9594
Published: April 23, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31318
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9594
CWE-ID: CWE-665
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: curl.haxx.se
Affected software:
cURL
cURL
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9594
Install update from vendor's website.