CVE-2016-8625
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.043 · 91 %ileDEEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (4)
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advisories (3)
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- WID-SEC-W-2023-1652cURL: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2016-11-02csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in cURL ausnutzen, um das System zum Absturz zu bringen, um Informationen aus den Cookies offenzulegen, um dem Benutzer falsche Informationen darzustellen und sich als ein Benutzer auszugeben.
- WID-SEC-W-2026-0180Dell Data Protection Advisor: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-01-20csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell Data Protection Advisor ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu erzeugen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen und nicht näher spezifizierte Angriffe zu starten.
- CURL-CVE-2016-8625IDNA 2003 makes curl use wrong host2016-11-02vendor · osvUS
When curl is built with libidn to handle International Domain Names (IDNA), it translates them to puny code for DNS resolving using the IDNA 2003 standard, while IDNA 2008 is the modern and up-to-date IDNA standard. This misalignment causes problems with for example domains using the German ß character (known as the Unicode Character `LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S`) which is used at times in the `.de` TLD and is translated differently in the two IDNA standards, leading to users potentially and unknowingly issuing network transfer requests to the wrong host. For example, `straße.de` is translated into `strasse.de` using IDNA 2003 but is translated into `xn--strae-oqa.de` using IDNA 2008. Needless to say, those hostnames could well resolve to different addresses and be two completely independent servers. IDNA 2008 is mandatory for `.de` domains. curl is not alone with this problem, as there is currently a big flux in the world of network user-agents about which IDNA version to support and use. This name problem exists for DNS-using protocols in curl, but only when built to use libidn.
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references (34)
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94107cnnvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8625cnnvd
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patchcnnvd
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
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