CVE-2025-11563 (GCVE-0-2025-11563)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-02-25 07:20
Modified
2026-02-25 18:53
Summary
URLs containing percent-encoded slashes (`/` or `\`) can trick wcurl into saving the output file outside of the current directory without the user explicitly asking for it. This flaw only affects the wcurl command line tool.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Version: 8.17.0    8.17.0
Version: 8.16.0    8.16.0
Version: 8.15.0    8.15.0
Version: 8.14.1    8.14.1
Version: 8.14.0    8.14.0
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