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CVE-2016-0754

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0754 describes a vulnerability in cURL versions prior to 7.47.0 on Windows, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files to the current working directory on a different drive by including a colon in a remote filename. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) has a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, potentially leading to data integrity issues. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.46.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0112 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

jitsipatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 7.46.0
View patch
sierra_wirelesspatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 7.46.0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

sierra_wirelessllm-sierra_wireless-c09592210d88f2b3HIGH

remote filename path traversal in curl tool for Windows

Jan 27, 2016
jitsillm-jitsi-b8a1a71404885722HIGH

remote filename path traversal in curl tool for Windows

Jan 27, 2016

References

curl.haxx.se / docs/adv_20160127B.html
Vendor Advisory