Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness Affecting libcurl package, versions [7.76.0,8.22.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.9% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBCURL-20158570
  • published27 Sept 2026
  • disclosed6 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-80231  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-305  (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 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in the connection reuse process when a different Native CA Store setting is used than the one originally configured. An attacker can compromise the integrity of HTTPS connections by exploiting the reuse of connections established with different trust settings.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1