CVE-2026-8926 (GCVE-0-2026-8926)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-03 06:15 – Updated: 2026-09-15 06:03
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
password leak with netrc and user in URL
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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-06 17:01 UTC
CWE
- CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| curl | curl |
Affected:
8.11.1 , < 8.14.2
(semver)
Affected: 8.15.0 , < 8.16.1 (semver) Affected: 8.17.0 , < 8.20.1 (semver) |
guessed | |
| curl | curl |
Affected:
e9b9bbac22c26cf67316fa8e6c6b9e831af31949 , < 4ae1d7cc2643e4773a136395f12bc02fc6867854
(git)
|
guessed | |
| curl | curl |
Affected:
8.20.0
Affected: 8.19.0 Affected: 8.18.0 Affected: 8.17.0 Affected: 8.16.0 Affected: 8.15.0 Affected: 8.14.1 Affected: 8.14.0 Affected: 8.13.0 Affected: 8.12.1 Affected: 8.12.0 Affected: 8.11.1 |
guessed |
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"8.19.0",
"8.18.0",
"8.17.0",
"8.16.0",
"8.15.0",
"8.14.1",
"8.14.0",
"8.13.0",
"8.12.1",
"8.12.0",
"8.11.1"
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-8926"
],
"credits": [
{
"name": "Joshua Rogers (Aisle Research)",
"type": "finder"
},
{
"name": "Stefan Eissing",
"type": "remediation developer"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"CWE": {
"desc": "Insufficiently Protected Credentials",
"id": "CWE-522"
},
"URL": "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-8926.json",
"affects": "both",
"issue": "https://hackerone.com/reports/3735184",
"last_affected": "8.20.0",
"package": "curl",
"severity": "Low",
"www": "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-8926.html"
},
"details": "When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same\ntime specifying a URL with a username (without a password), like\n`https://user@example.com/`, curl could wrongly get and use the password for\n*another* user set in the `.netrc` file for that host if such a one exists and\nthere is no match for the specified user.",
"id": "CURL-CVE-2026-8926",
"modified": "2026-09-07T10:34:51.00Z",
"published": "2026-06-24T08:00:00.00Z",
"schema_version": "1.5.0",
"summary": "password leak with netrc and user in URL"
}
}
},
"cveMetadata": {
"assignerOrgId": "2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9",
"assignerShortName": "curl",
"cveId": "CVE-2026-8926",
"datePublished": "2026-07-03T06:15:45.735Z",
"dateReserved": "2026-05-19T08:11:58.393Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-09-15T06:03:23.777Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
},
"dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
"dataVersion": "5.2"
}
}
}
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