Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting curl package, versions [7.10.6,8.21.0)
Threat Intelligence
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- published3 Jul 2026
- disclosed3 Jul 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 3 Jul 2026
CVE-2026-11856 (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 Insufficiently Protected Credentials in the Authorization header handling process. An attacker can cause sensitive authentication information to be sent to an unintended origin by reusing a handle for transfers to different HTTP origins after performing Digest authentication.