Access Control Bypass Affecting curl package, versions [7.43.0,8.21.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-17808156
  • published3 Jul 2026
  • disclosed3 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-8458  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (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 Access Control Bypass in the connection reuse process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to resources or services by exploiting the reuse of an authenticated connection intended for a different service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1