Replay Attack Affecting curl package, versions [,8.20.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-16699581
  • published15 May 2026
  • disclosed13 May 2026
  • creditMuhamad Arga Reksapati

Introduced: 13 May 2026

CVE-2026-7168  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-294  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 8.20.0 or higher.

Overview

curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Replay Attack in the Proxy-Authorization: header handling process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to resources or sensitive information by leveraging a scenario where authentication credentials intended for one proxy are inadvertently sent to a different proxy when reusing the same handle for multiple transfers with different proxies.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1