Improper Certificate Validation Affecting libcurl package, versions [7.76.0,8.21.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBCURL-17808135
  • published3 Jul 2026
  • disclosed3 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-9547  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (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 Improper Certificate Validation in the CURLOPT_SSH_KEYFUNCTION process. An attacker can intercept or manipulate data by presenting a server host key type that does not match the recorded key type in the known_hosts file, which is improperly accepted without warning.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1