CVE-2016-8615

Description

A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51. If cookie state is written into a cookie jar file that is later read back and used for subsequent requests, a malicious HTTP server can inject new cookies for arbitrary domains into said cookie jar.

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102A.html

https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8615.patch

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8615

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94096

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3