vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2016-5420: Moderate: curl security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2016:2575)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Aug 10, 2016 | Nov 4, 2016 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 10, 2016
Added
Nov 4, 2016
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
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.
Solutions
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-curlredhat-upgrade-curl-debuginforedhat-upgrade-libcurlredhat-upgrade-libcurl-devel
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