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CVE-2016-8615

Date: August 1, 2018

A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51. If cookie state is written into a cookie jar file that is later read back and used for subsequent requests, a malicious HTTP server can inject new cookies for arbitrary domains into said cookie jar.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (18)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8615

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94096

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8615

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8615

Url: https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8615.patch

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102A.html

Url: https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8615

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-8615

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8615

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-8615

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection')

CWE-99

Security Features

CWE-254

Partial String Comparison

CWE-187

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2016-8615

Date: August 1, 2018

Language: C

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Related Resources (18)

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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