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CVE-2016-8616
LOW · CVSS 3.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-08-01T06:29:00.287 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:54:36.700

Summary

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.

Affected products

haxx — curl

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References

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