SASL double-free (curl curl)

CVE-2026-8925
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.08 % · percentile 65 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
curl
NVD status
Modified

Description

The curl logic that works with SASL authentication could end up cleaning up the GSASL context *twice* without clearing the pointer in between, making it `free()` the same pointer twice.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
curl · curlaffected 8.15.0 < 8.16.1 ; affected 8.17.0 < 8.20.1
curl · curlaffected ab650379a8c25ca952f651476d25b4cdd77bb3fc < 3da249e1f0716c06644ed3522a37a8bf81808012
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