CVE-2016-8625

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-8625
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-08-01T06:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-06-29T15:15:11
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 7.51.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.html Patch Vendor Advisory
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patch Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8625 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94107 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8625
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8625
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:09:34 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 10:46:20 2018-08-01T06:29Z 2018-08-01T06:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 10:46:20 2021-06-29T15:15:11 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 10:46:20 Modified Vulnerability Status updated