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CVE-2016-7141

curl: Incorrect reuse of client certificates

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.2

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 5, 2016

Updated · September 21, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS 2.0 · 4.9
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation