CVE-2025-15079 (GCVE-0-2025-15079)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-01-08 10:08
Modified
2026-09-15 06:02
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-297 - Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch
Summary
When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the known_hosts file, libcurl could still mistakenly accept connecting to hosts *not present* in the specified file if they were added as recognized in the libssh *global* known_hosts file.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Version: 7.58.0   ≤
Version: 8.15.0   ≤
Version: 8.17.0   ≤
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Version: 7.63.0
Version: 7.62.0
Version: 7.61.1
Version: 7.61.0
Version: 7.60.0
Version: 7.59.0
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