CVE-2026-87863

high

Description

An authenticated HTTPS origin can supply an HSTS `max-age` value that the parser accepts, but time serialization later fails to process. On 64-bit systems, extreme max-age values compute an absolute expiry within standard time integer limits that exceeds calendar time structure bounds. During cache saves, the original HSTS file is truncated before writing a temporary replacement; when serialization fails, the temporary file is deleted, leaving an empty or partial cache. Because the save error is silently ignored during cleanup, curl exits successfully despite the data loss.

References

https://hackerone.com/reports/3972373

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-105311

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-87863.json

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-87863.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00828