CVE-2016-7141
curl - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.52%
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-7141
To remediate CVE-2016-7141, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 7.50.2-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 7.51.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 7.38.0-4+deb8u13 or later
- —upgrade to 7.26.0-1+wheezy15 or later
Is CVE-2016-7141 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 7.50.2-r0
- from 0, < 7.51.0-1
- from 0, < 7.38.0-4+deb8u13
- from 0, < 7.26.0-1+wheezy15
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |