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…
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- mitre
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 28 days later
· 28 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.2% · top 5.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- RHSA-2016:2575 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160907.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3558 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373229 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1036739 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181106 [SECURITY] [DLA 1568-1] curl security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_50_2~32 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2379 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2957 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 92754 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-47 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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