trailing dot domain super cookie (curl curl)

CVE-2026-8924
CRITICAL 9.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.66 % · percentile 52 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
curl
NVD status
Modified

Description

A flaw in curl’s cookie parsing logic allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" that bypass the Public Suffix List check. This enables an attacker-controlled origin to inject cookies that curl subsequently scopes and transmits to unrelated third-party domains.

Weaknesses (CWE)

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

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
curl · curlaffected 7.46.0 < 8.14.2 ; affected 8.15.0 < 8.16.1 ; affected 8.17.0 < 8.20.1
curl · curlaffected e77b5b7453c1e8ccd7ec0816890d98e2f392e465 < 51beed175dbfc37da3113f6acce60c630c070ce8
curl · curlaffected 8.20.0 ; affected 8.19.0 ; affected 8.18.0 ; affected 8.17.0 ; affected 8.16.0 ; affected 8.15.0

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