ALPINE-CVE-2016-7141

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CVE-2016-7141
Published: 03 Oct 2016, 21:59
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Oct 2016, 21:59
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Systems

  • alpine•curl

    < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.49.1-r2 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.49.1-r2 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2-r0 | < 7.50.2 | < 7.50.2 | < 7.50.2 | < 7.50.2-r1

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