CVSS 3.0
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-16839
Curl versions 7.33.0 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the SASL authentication code that may lead to denial of service.
Severity
- EPSS
- 5.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-119, CWE-122, CWE-190
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- haxx:curl
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042012
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16839
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16839.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/f3a24d7916b9173c69a3e0ee790102993833d6c5
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E