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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-5420

curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS connection to reuse, which might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of the connection by leveraging a previously created connection with a…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 14.6%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.6%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS connection to reuse, which might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of the connection by leveraging a previously created connection with a different client certificate.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
14.60% probability · 96th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-285
Affected
debian/debian linux · haxx/libcurl · opensuse/leap
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.