CVE-2016-8625
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| arch | fixed | 7.51.0-1 | |
| debian | forky | fixed | 7.51.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 7.51.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 7.51.0-1 |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 7.51.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 7.51.0-1 |
References
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-10
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-9
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-5
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-8
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-4
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-7
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8625.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8625
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.