CVE-2016-5420
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-08-03 | |
| Impact: | Low | What is this? |
Description
curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificatewhen 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.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 4.9 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (curl) | ELSA-2016-2575 | 2016-11-09 |
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