A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-08-01T06:00:00

Updated: 2018-11-13T10:57:01

Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-8616

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-01T06:29:00.287

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:36:23.963


Link: CVE-2016-8616

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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