CVE-2016-9594

Publication date 23 April 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.1 · High

Score breakdown

Description

curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.1 · High

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

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