auto client cert connection reuse mixup (curl curl)

CVE-2026-86415
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.42 % · percentile 36 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
curl
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

libcurl's connection cache match function never considers the automatic client certificate option, so a cached, already authenticated Schannel connection can be handed to a transfer that got redirected to a different origin, even though the code explicitly switched off the auto client cert option for that transfer to prevent exactly this.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-201 — Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
curl · curlaffected 8.22.0 ≤ 8.22.0 ; affected 8.21.0 ≤ 8.21.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD