CVE-2026-86412 (GCVE-0-2026-86412)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-20 20:03
Modified
2026-10-20 20:03
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
A remote HTTP server can set a cookie that curl accepts and writes to a Netscape cookie jar but cannot reload. On the next invocation using the same path for `--cookie` and `--cookie-jar`, curl fails before connecting, then the cleanup procedure replaces the jar with an empty file, deleting cookies for unrelated domains.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Version: 8.22.0   ≤ 8.22.0
Version: 8.21.0   ≤ 8.21.0
Version: 8.20.0   ≤ 8.20.0
Version: 8.19.0   ≤ 8.19.0
Version: 8.18.0   ≤ 8.18.0
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