Improper Certificate Validation Affecting curl package, versions <0:7.29.0-35.el7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.5% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-CURL-2070886
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 3 Aug 2016
Introduced: 3 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-5420 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7
curl
to version 0:7.29.0-35.el7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl
package and not the curl
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS connection to reuse, which might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of the connection by leveraging a previously created connection with a different client certificate.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92309
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5420
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3638
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLPXQQKURBQFM4XM6645VRPTOE2AWG33/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K3GQH4V3XAQ5Z53AMQRDEC3C3UHTW7QR/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160803B.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2575.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2575
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036537
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036739
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.563059
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00094.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3048-1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLPXQQKURBQFM4XM6645VRPTOE2AWG33/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K3GQH4V3XAQ5Z53AMQRDEC3C3UHTW7QR/