Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libcurl package, versions [7.76.0,8.21.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.77% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBCURL-17808166
  • published3 Jul 2026
  • disclosed3 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-11856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (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 Insufficiently Protected Credentials in the Authorization header handling process. An attacker can cause sensitive authentication information to be sent to an unintended origin by reusing a handle for transfers to different HTTP origins after performing Digest authentication.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1