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CVE-2016-5420
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-08-10T14:59:05.080 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:49:22.720

Summary

curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS connection to reuse, which might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of the connection by leveraging a previously created connection with a different client certificate.

Affected products

debian — debian_linux

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References

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