CVE-2026-8458

medium

Description

libcurl might in some circumstances reuse the wrong connection when asked to do Negotiate-authenticated ones, even when they are set to use different 'services'. libcurl features a pool of recent connections so that subsequent requests can reuse an existing connection to avoid overhead. When reusing a connection a range of criteria must be met. Due to a logical error in the code, a request that was issued by an application could wrongfully reuse an existing connection to the same server that was authenticated using different services.

References

https://hackerone.com/reports/3721183

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-8458.json

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-8458.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-03

Updated: 2026-07-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00206