High
Security advisory
curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8625
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.
osv:CVE-2016-8625
Complete source record
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"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486",
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"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47",
"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21",
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