CVE-2016-7141

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 12
Modified
Published: 03 Oct 2016, 21:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 01:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.52% LOW
1% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Oct 2016, 21:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 01:50
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
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.52%• Percentile: 67%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-287•Improper Authentication

    When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Systems

  • haxx•libcurl

    ≤ 7.50.1

  • opensuse•leap

    42.1

References (12)