{"action":"Upgrade curl to 7.51.0 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"7.51.0","introduced":"0"}],"component":"curl","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.8","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["7.51.0"],"id":"tcs_01M5N8MD97P6F21FP7CDPMP49V","modified_at":"2026-09-22T06:17:50.246334032Z","published_at":"2018-07-31T21:29:00.317Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-8622","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-8622"],"severity":{"label":"critical","score":9.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2016-8622#Alpine:v3.8/curl","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-8622"}],"summary":"The URL percent-encoding decode function in libcurl before 7.51.0 is called `curl_easy_unescape`. Internally, even if this function would be made to allocate a unscape destination buffer larger than 2"}