Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness Affecting libcurl package, versions [7.76.0,8.19.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.01% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBCURL-15460438
  • published11 Mar 2026
  • disclosed11 Mar 2026
  • creditMuhamad Arga Reksapati

Introduced: 11 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2026-3784  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-305  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libcurl to version 8.19.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in the url_match_proxy_use() function used by the CONNECT operation for an HTTP proxy connection. An attacker in control of an already-authenticated connection can authenticate using its credentials on a different proxy-authenticated connection.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1