Remote hijacking of TLS authentication in curl and libcurl (CVE-2016-5421)

CVE-2016-7141 · MEDIUM Severity

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

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

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