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Vulnerability details: VCID-snaz-pg1h-8kew
Vulnerability ID VCID-snaz-pg1h-8kew
Aliases CVE-2016-0754
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
System Score Found at
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
epss 0.00351 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
cvssv3.1 High https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2016-0754.html
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0754
cvssv3 5.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0754
Reference id Reference type URL
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160127B.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0754
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2016-0754.html
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-0754 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0754
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0754
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0754
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.57423
EPSS Score 0.00351
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T17:46:36.935028+00:00 EPSS Importer Import https://epss.cyentia.com/epss_scores-current.csv.gz 38.0.0