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CVE-2016-8622

9.8 criticalEPSS 4.7%

The URL percent-encoding decode function in libcurl before 7.51.0 is called `curl_easy_unescape`. Internally, even if this function would be made to allocate a unscape destination buffer larger than 2GB, it would return that new length in a signed 32 bit integer variable, thus the length would get either just truncated or both truncated and turned negative. That could then lead to libcurl writing outside of its heap based buffer.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-787, CWE-122, CWE-190
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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