CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2018-16890
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.35%
Original NVD Description
libcurl versions from 7.36.0 to before 7.64.0 is vulnerable to a heap buffer out-of-bounds read. The function handling incoming NTLM type-2 messages (`lib/vauth/ntlm.c:ntlm_decode_type2_target`) does not validate incoming data correctly and is subject to an integer overflow vulnerability. Using that overflow, a malicious or broken NTLM server could trick libcurl to accept a bad length + offset combination that would lead to a buffer read out-of-bounds.
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