Case-insensitive Comparison Vulnerability in curl

CVE-2016-8616 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password.

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