CVE-2026-8926 (GCVE-0-2026-8926)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-03 06:15
Modified
2026-09-15 06:03
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Summary
When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same time specifying a URL with a username (without a password), like `https://user@example.com/`, curl could wrongly get and use the password for *another* user set in the `.netrc` file for that host if such a one exists and there is no match for the specified user.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Version: 8.11.1   ≤
Version: 8.15.0   ≤
Version: 8.17.0   ≤
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Version: 8.19.0
Version: 8.18.0
Version: 8.17.0
Version: 8.16.0
Version: 8.15.0
Version: 8.14.1
Version: 8.14.0
Version: 8.13.0
Version: 8.12.1
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