CVE-2016-9594 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594 https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04 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. cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl::::::::

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.1