Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness Affecting curl package, versions [8.17.0,8.21.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.61% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-17808151
  • published3 Jul 2026
  • disclosed3 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-11564  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-305  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 8.21.0 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 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in the connection pool process. An attacker can bypass intended certificate validation by reusing a handle that initially used the default native CA trust and then switching it to custom CA material, causing subsequent transfers to continue trusting the native platform store.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1