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CVE-2016-9586

MEDIUM
Published 2018-04-23T18:00:00
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CVSS Score

V3.0
5.9
/10
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.007
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.7% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.707
Higher than 70.7% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

Description

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

redhat

curl

Affected Versions:

curl 7.52.0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-9xx8-h3pj-h4h9

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9586
WEB https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586
WEB https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
WEB http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
WEB http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95019
WEB http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037515

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 13, 2022, Modified: May 13, 2022

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037515
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95019
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Published: 2018-04-23T18:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-06T02:59:02.246Z
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