Information Exposure Affecting libcurl package, versions [8.15.0,8.22.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBCURL-20158568
  • published27 Sept 2026
  • disclosed6 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-80255  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libcurl to version 8.22.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure via the Set-Cookie header parsing process. An attacker can cause cookies to be stored without the Secure flag by injecting a horizontal tab character before the Secure attribute, which may result in those cookies being transmitted over unencrypted HTTP connections.

CVSS Base Scores

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