CVE-2025-13034 (GCVE-0-2025-13034)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-01-08 10:00
Modified
2026-01-08 14:58
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
Summary
When using `CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY` option with libcurl or `--pinnedpubkey` with the curl tool,curl should check the public key of the server certificate to verify the peer. This check was skipped in a certain condition that would then make curl allow the connection without performing the proper check, thus not noticing a possible impostor. To skip this check, the connection had to be done with QUIC with ngtcp2 built to use GnuTLS and the user had to explicitly disable the standard certificate verification.
References
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
Version: 8.13.0   ≤ 8.13.0
Version: 8.12.1   ≤ 8.12.1
Version: 8.12.0   ≤ 8.12.0
Version: 8.11.1   ≤ 8.11.1
Version: 8.11.0   ≤ 8.11.0
Version: 8.10.1   ≤ 8.10.1
Version: 8.10.0   ≤ 8.10.0
Version: 8.9.1   ≤ 8.9.1
Version: 8.9.0   ≤ 8.9.0
Version: 8.8.0   ≤ 8.8.0
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