CVE-2016-9594

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 High 8.1
Description
curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-9594
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-04-23T19:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-09T23:20:38
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-665 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/665.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 7.52.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 8.1
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.2
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528 VDB Entry Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9594
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9594
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:13:29 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 05:32:13 2018-04-23T19:29Z 2018-04-23T19:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 05:32:13 2019-10-09T23:20:38 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 05:32:13 Modified Vulnerability Status updated