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CVE-2016-8625
curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially…
Medium5.3EPSS 4.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| 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)
- 4.3% · top 8.8% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 7.51.0
References (11)
- 94107 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3558 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1037192 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8625 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2486 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-47 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- 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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