CVE-2016-8625
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.3 · Improper input validation
5.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.
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-2016-8625 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8625Patch
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patchPatch
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.htmlPatch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94107Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E