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    CVE-2016-7141

    curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

    Published:Sep 5, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Oct 3, 2016
    EPSS Score:0.00422
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Haxx
    Product
    Libcurl
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Leap
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Core Services
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Software Collections

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00094.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2575.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92754
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036739
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373229
    https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160907.html
    https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_50_2~32
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00094.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2575.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92754
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036739
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373229
    https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160907.html
    https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_50_2~32
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

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