CVE-2016-9594 in macOS

Summary

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.

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• Responsible: Red Hat, Inc.
• Reservation: 11/23/2016
• Disclosure: 04/23/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-104237 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-665 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 7.6
• EPSS: 0.01088
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9594
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9594
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-9594/