Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBCURLDEVEL-16354108
  • published3 May 2026
  • disclosed29 Apr 2026

Introduced: 29 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-5545  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-488  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 libcurl-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcurl-devel package and not the libcurl-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

libcurl might in some circumstances reuse the wrong connection when asked to do an authenticated HTTP(S) request after a Negotiate-authenticated one, when both use the same host.

libcurl features a pool of recent connections so that subsequent requests can reuse an existing connection to avoid overhead.

When reusing a connection a range of criteria must be met. Due to a logical error in the code, a request that was issued by an application could wrongfully reuse an existing connection to the same server that was authenticated using different credentials.

An application that first uses Negotiate authentication to a server with user1:password1 and then does another operation to the same server asking for any authentication method but for user2:password2 (while the previous connection is still alive) - the second request gets confused and wrongly reuses the same connection and sends the new request over that connection thinking it uses a mix of user1's and user2's credentials when it is in fact still using the connection authenticated for user1...

CVSS Base Scores

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