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CVE-2016-8616

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…

Severity
Medium 5.9
Published
1 Aug 2018
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Fixed in
7.51.0
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
curlServers and applications · cpe:a:haxx:curl
  • Every version before 7.51.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8616
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8616