CVE-2016-8615
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.3 · CWE-99
5.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51. If cookie state is written into a cookie jar file that is later read back and used for subsequent requests, a malicious HTTP server can inject new cookies for arbitrary domains into said cookie jar.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8615 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8615Patch
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8615.patchPatch
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102A.htmlPatch
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94096Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558