CVE-2016-0754

Publication date 29 January 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

cURL before 7.47.0 on Windows allows attackers to write to arbitrary files in the current working directory on a different drive via a colon in a remote file name.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
curl	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

Windows only (anywhere : has special meaning in filenames)

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N