vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-0755

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 29, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The ConnectionExists function in lib/url.c in libcurl before 7.47.0 does not properly re-use NTLM-authenticated proxy connections, which might allow remote attackers to authenticate as other users via a request, a similar issue to CVE-2014-0015.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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