Servers and applications
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
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
curlServers and applications · cpe:a:haxx:curl |
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