Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness Affecting curl package, versions [ 7.71.0,8.14.2)[8.15.0,8.16.1)[8.17.0,8.20.1)[8.21.0,8.22.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.9% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-20158569
  • published27 Sept 2026
  • disclosed6 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-80231  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-305  (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 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in the connection reuse process when a different Native CA Store setting is used than the one originally configured. An attacker can compromise the integrity of HTTPS connections by exploiting the reuse of connections established with different trust settings.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1