CVE-2026-7009 (GCVE-0-2026-7009)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 08:28 – Updated: 2026-05-13 14:20
VLAI
Title
OCSP stapling bypass with Apple SecTrust
Summary
When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as *OCSP stapling*, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it fails to detect OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-13 14:20 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
curl curl Affected: 8.19.0 , ≤ 8.19.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.18.0 , ≤ 8.18.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.17.0 , ≤ 8.17.0 (semver)
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Credits
Carlos Carrillo Stefan Eissing
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