vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8625: Improper Input Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 1, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-curl
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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