Credentials Management Errors
CVE-2016-8616
Summary
A flaw was found in curl versions 7.7 through 7.50.3 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.
- HIGH
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
- NONE
- NONE
CWE-255 - Credentials Management Errors
Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of credentials.
Advisory Timeline
- Published