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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-7141

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 8.40%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

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
8.40% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-287
Affected
opensuse/leap · haxx/libcurl
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

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