stale proxy password leak (curl curl)

CVE-2026-9079
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.06 % · percentile 65 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
curl
NVD status
Modified

Description

libcurl had a flaw that when instructed to clear proxy authentication credentials which made it not do so, leaving the old credentials around to get used for subsequent transfers that should not know nor use them.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

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 8.8.0 < 8.14.2 ; affected 8.15.0 < 8.16.1 ; affected 8.17.0 < 8.20.1
curl · curlaffected d5e83eb745762f48d8fafadc5df5dd3ae8d8941e < 88c7e16cceec816a2df45c899d49b1e85513f193
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