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CVE-2016-8616

LOW · CVSS 3.7 EPSS 3.47%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-08-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.7. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2016-8616
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.7
EPSS
3.47%

Original NVD Description

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 the correct password.

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