CVE-2016-8615: Haxx Curl

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51. If cookie state is written into a cookie jar file that is later read back and used for subsequent requests, a malicious HTTP server can inject new cookies for arbitrary domains into said cookie jar.

Affected products

• Haxx Curl: before 7.51.0 (fixed in 7.51.0)

Published 2018-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.