THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-9586
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2016-9586

Curl vulnerability

CVSS
5.9
EPSS
4.9%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.
Affected vendor
Haxx
Affected product
Curl
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2018-04-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-9586

  • Confirm whether Haxx Curl is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-9586.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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