wrong reuse of HTTP Negotiate connection (curl curl)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.41 % · percentile 36 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- curl
- NVD status
- Modified
Description
libcurl might in some circumstances reuse the wrong connection when asked to do an authenticated HTTP(S) request after a Negotiate-authenticated one, when both use the same host. libcurl features a pool of recent connections so that subsequent requests can reuse an existing connection to avoid overhead. When reusing a connection a range of criteria must be met. Due to a logical error in the code, a request that was issued by an application could wrongfully reuse an existing connection to the same server that was authenticated using different credentials. An application that first uses Negotiate authentication to a server with `user1:password1` and then does another operation to the same server asking for any authentication method but for `user2:password2` (while the previous connection is still alive) - the second request gets confused and wrongly reuses the same connection and sends the new request over that connection thinking it uses a mix of user1's and user2's credentials when it is in fact still using the connection authenticated for user1...
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-305 — Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
- CWE-613 — DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N | CISA-ADP |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N | NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-29923
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-5545
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1390 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Tenable Network Monitor · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1351 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle MySQL · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1125 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1023 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Tenable Security Center · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0797 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans cURL et libcurl · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0796 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Tenable Identity Exposure · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0514 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Curl · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 7.10.6 < 8.20.0
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| curl · curl | affected 7.10.6 < 8.14.2 ; affected 8.15.0 < 8.16.1 ; affected 8.17.0 < 8.20.0 |
| curl · curl | affected e56ae1426cb7a0a4a427cf8d6099a821fdaae428 < 33e43985b8f3b9e66691d06e70be0395849856cd |
| curl · curl | affected 8.19.0 ; affected 8.18.0 ; affected 8.17.0 ; affected 8.16.0 ; affected 8.15.0 ; affected 8.14.1 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |