Incorrect reuse of client certificates
libcurl built on top of NSS (Network Security Services) incorrectly reused client certificates if a certificate from file was used for one TLS connection but no certificate set for a subsequent TLS connection. While the symptoms are similar to CVE-2016-5420 (Reusing connection with wrong client cert), this vulnerability was caused by an implementation detail of the NSS backend in libcurl, which is orthogonal to the cause of CVE-2016-5420.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
137 explicit affected versions
48 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.
libcurl built on top of NSS (Network Security Services) incorrectly reused client certificates if a certificate from file was used for one TLS connection but no certificate set for a subsequent TLS connection. While the symptoms are similar to CVE-2016-5420 (Reusing connection with wrong client cert), this vulnerability was caused by an implementation detail of the NSS backend in libcurl, which is orthogonal to the cause of CVE-2016-5420.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00094.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2575.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92754
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036739
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373229
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160907.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_50_2~32
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47