Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data Affecting libcurl package, versions [7.76.0,8.21.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBCURL-17808133
  • published3 Jul 2026
  • disclosed3 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-8927  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-201  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libcurl to version 8.21.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data in the process of reusing a handle for sequential transfers with environment-variable proxy configuration. An attacker can cause sensitive authentication headers to be sent to an unintended proxy by initiating a transfer through one proxy using Digest authentication, followed by a subsequent transfer through a different proxy.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1