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CVE-2016-8616

Published: 2018-08-01T06:29Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt