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CVE-2016-7141

Public on 2016-09-27
Modified on 2016-09-27
Description

It was found that the libcurl library using the NSS (Network Security Services) library as TLS/SSL backend incorrectly re-used client certificates for subsequent TLS connections in certain cases. 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 2016-09-27 10:30 ALAS-2016-742

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