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CVE-2016-5420

high · 7.5

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.

7.5
CVSS
14.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2016-08-10
Published

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-285

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
debiandebian_linux8.0
haxxlibcurl<= 7.50.0
opensuseleap42.1

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References

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