Improper Certificate Validation Affecting curl package, versions [8.9.1,8.14.2)[8.15.0,8.16.1)[8.17.0,8.20.1)[8.21.0,8.22.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-20158565
  • published27 Sept 2026
  • disclosed6 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-82208  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 8.14.2, 8.16.1, 8.20.1, 8.22.0 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 Improper Certificate Validation in the CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION callback process when CA caching is enabled with the wolfSSL backend. An attacker can bypass intended trust store restrictions by presenting a certificate that is trusted by the cached store but rejected by the callback-selected store, leading to incorrect acceptance of untrusted certificates.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1