Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libcurl package, versions [7.76.0,8.18.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBCURL-14908851
  • published9 Jan 2026
  • disclosed8 Jan 2026
  • creditanonymous237

Introduced: 8 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-14524  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libcurl to version 8.18.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials during the cross-protocol redirect when OAuth2 bearer is used and username component is set in redirect-to URL. An attacker can obtain sensitive authentication credentials by triggering a cross-protocol redirect from an HTTP(S) transfer to a different protocol such as IMAP, LDAP, POP3, or SMTP, causing the bearer token to be sent to an unintended host.

Note:

This vulnerability is a bypass of the CVE-2022-27774 fix.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1