Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session Affecting curl package, versions [8.21.0,8.23.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-21195758
  • published18 Oct 2026
  • disclosed14 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-86411  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-488  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 8.23.0 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 Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session due to improper reuse of pooled FTP connections previously authenticated with client certificates. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to remote server resources by initiating an unencrypted FTP transfer that reuses a connection originally established with certificate authentication. This is only exploitable if a client application shares a connection pool across both certificate-authenticated FTP sessions and unauthenticated cleartext transfers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1