Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-7141

Title: Haxx Libcurl Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-7141.

CWE Category CWE-287
Published Date Oct 03, 2016
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
8.40%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

H
haxx 1
L
libcurl 1

Reference Links

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
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-7141 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.