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OESA-2026-3170 (CVE-2026-8926)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2026-07-24 11:12 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:12 – Source website

Summary

curl security update

Details

cURL is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various protocols.

Security Fix(es):

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://(CVE-2026-8926)

Severity

4.8 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8926	ADVISORY

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "curl-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm",
          "curl-debuginfo-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm",
          "curl-debugsource-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm",
          "libcurl-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm",
          "libcurl-devel-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm"
        ],
        "noarch": [
          "curl-help-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.noarch.rpm"
        ],
        "src": [
          "curl-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.src.rpm"
        ],
        "x86_64": [
          "curl-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm",
          "curl-debuginfo-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm",
          "curl-debugsource-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm",
          "libcurl-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm",
          "libcurl-devel-8.4.0-33.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm"
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "openEuler:24.03-LTS-SP4",
        "name": "curl",
        "purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/curl\u0026distro=openEuler-24.03-LTS-SP4"
      },
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            }
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  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "cURL is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various protocols.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\nWhen 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://(CVE-2026-8926)",
  "id": "OESA-2026-3170",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:12:02Z",
  "published": "2026-07-24T11:12:02Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2026-3170"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8926"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "curl security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-8926"
  ]
}

CVE-2026-8926 (GCVE-0-2026-8926)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-03 06:15 – Updated: 2026-09-15 06:03

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)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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

curl redhat root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-8926.json
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-8926.html
https://hackerone.com/reports/3735184

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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)
curl	curl	Affected: e9b9bbac22c26cf67316fa8e6c6b9e831af31949 , < 4ae1d7cc2643e4773a136395f12bc02fc6867854 (git)
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

Credits

Joshua Rogers (Aisle Research) Stefan Eissing

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