CVE-2016-7141
curl: Incorrect reuse of client certificates
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
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 · 4.2CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 · 4.9AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation