CVE-2025-9086 Affecting curl package, versions <8.14.1-r2
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- published4 Oct 2025
- disclosed12 Sept 2025
Introduced: 12 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-9086 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.20 curl to version 8.14.1-r2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.
- A cookie is set using the
securekeyword forhttps://target - curl is redirected to or otherwise made to speak with
http://target(same hostname, but using clear text HTTP) using the same cookie set - The same cookie name is set - but with just a slash as path (
path='/'). Since this site is not secure, the cookie should just be ignored. - A bug in the path comparison logic makes curl read outside a heap buffer boundary
The bug either causes a crash or it potentially makes the comparison come to the wrong conclusion and lets the clear-text site override the contents of the secure cookie, contrary to expectations and depending on the memory contents immediately following the single-byte allocation that holds the path.
The presumed and correct behavior would be to plainly ignore the second set of the cookie since it was already set as secure on a secure host so overriding it on an insecure host should not be okay.