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CVE-2016-5420

Public on 2016-08-10
Modified on 2016-08-17
Description

It was found that the libcurl library did not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS connection to reuse. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to hijack the authentication of the connection by leveraging a previously created connection with a different client certificate.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 curl 2016-08-17 13:30 ALAS-2016-730

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.9 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N