DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8616

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8616
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8616.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8616
Upstream
Published
2018-08-01T06:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:33Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.51.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.51.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.51.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.51.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}