CVE-2016-9594
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · CWE-665
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04Advisory