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CVE-2026-8926

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.1 Published: 2026-07-03 Modified: 2026-07-07

Description

When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same time specifying a URL with a username(without a password), like `https://[email protected]/`, curl could wrongly get and use the password for *another* user set in the `.netrc` file for that host if such a one exists and there is no match for the specified user.

Affected Platforms

Haxx Curl

Weakness Type

CWE-522

References