CVE-2016-9586CWE-122

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

Medium · published April 23, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.9
EPSS
5%
Percentile
91.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04746 · 91.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2018-04-23T18:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 APR 18:00Z
    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
    cvelistv5