CVE-2016-9594 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Haxx	Curl

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9594
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9594
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04

History

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-04-23T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2026-04-15T21:03:18.894Z

Reserved: 2016-11-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9594

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:02.701Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-23T19:29:00.233

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:01:28.530

Link: CVE-2016-9594

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-12-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9594 - Bugzilla

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