CVE-2016-5420

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
1.086

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Curl For Windows 7.50.0Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-5419,CVE-2016-5420,CVE-2016-5421 are fixed in Curl For Windows 7.50.1Windows
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.8_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.8_amd64.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3_7.22.0-3ubuntu4.16_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3_7.22.0-3ubuntu4.16_amd64.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-nss_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.8_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-nss_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.8_amd64.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-nss_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-nss_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-nss_7.22.0-3ubuntu4.16_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-nss_7.22.0-3ubuntu4.16_amd64.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.8_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.8_amd64.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-gnutls_7.22.0-3ubuntu4.16_i386.debLinux
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries (USN-3048-1) libcurl3-gnutls_7.22.0-3ubuntu4.16_amd64.debLinux
curl security update(DSA-3638-1) curl_7.50.1-1_i386.debLinux
curl security update(DSA-4136-1) curl_7.50.1-1_i386.debLinux
curl security update(DSA-4202-1) curl_7.50.1-1_i386.debLinux
Improper Authorization Vulnerability (CVE-2016-5420)NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234