CURL-CVE-2026-94266

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Source
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-94266.html
Import Source
https://curl.se/docs/CURL-CVE-2026-94266.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CURL-CVE-2026-94266
Aliases
  • CVE-2026-94266
Published
2026-10-14T08:00:00Z
Modified
2026-10-14T07:07:44Z
Summary
password leak in CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL
Details

libcurl could accidentally return a URL for curl_easy_getinfo()'s CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL option containing credentials, even though neither the URL provided to libcurl nor the redirected URL did.

Database specific 
{
    "CWE":  {
        "desc":  "Insufficiently Protected Credentials",
        "id":  "CWE-522"
    },
    "URL":  "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-94266.json",
    "affects":  "both",
    "issue":  "https://hackerone.com/reports/4041053",
    "last_affected":  "8.22.0",
    "package":  "curl",
    "severity":  "Low",
    "www":  "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-94266.html"
}
Credits
    • Joshua Rogers (Aisle Research) - FINDER
    • Daniel Stenberg - REMEDIATION_DEVELOPER

Affected packages

Git / github.com/curl/curl.git

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
7.62.0
Fixed
8.23.0
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/curl/curl.git
Events
Introduced
46e164069d1a5230e4e64cbd2ff46c46cce056bb
Fixed
7a6bd027d0de2b6857472d35da090ef60cc29f19

Affected versions

7.*
7.62.0
7.63.0
7.64.0
7.64.1
7.65.0
7.65.1
7.65.2
7.65.3
7.66.0
7.67.0
7.68.0
7.69.0
7.69.1
7.70.0
7.71.0
7.71.1
7.72.0
7.73.0
7.74.0
7.75.0
7.76.0
7.76.1
7.77.0
7.78.0
7.79.0
7.79.1
7.80.0
7.81.0
7.82.0
7.83.0
7.83.1
7.84.0
7.85.0
7.86.0
7.87.0
7.88.0
7.88.1
8.*
8.0.0
8.0.1
8.1.0
8.1.1
8.1.2
8.10.0
8.10.1
8.11.0
8.11.1
8.12.0
8.12.1
8.13.0
8.14.0
8.14.1
8.15.0
8.16.0
8.17.0
8.18.0
8.19.0
8.2.0
8.2.1
8.20.0
8.21.0
8.22.0
8.3.0
8.4.0
8.5.0
8.6.0
8.7.0
8.7.1
8.8.0
8.9.0
8.9.1
Other
curl-7_62_0
curl-7_63_0
curl-7_64_0
curl-7_64_1
curl-7_65_0
curl-7_65_1
curl-7_65_2
curl-7_65_3
curl-7_66_0
curl-7_67_0
curl-7_68_0
curl-7_69_0
curl-7_69_1
curl-7_70_0
curl-7_71_0
curl-7_71_1
curl-7_72_0
curl-7_73_0
curl-7_74_0
curl-7_75_0
curl-7_76_0
curl-7_76_1
curl-7_77_0
curl-7_78_0
curl-7_79_0
curl-7_79_1
curl-7_80_0
curl-7_81_0
curl-7_82_0
curl-7_83_0
curl-7_83_1
curl-7_84_0
curl-7_85_0
curl-7_86_0
curl-7_87_0
curl-7_88_0
curl-7_88_1
curl-8_0_0
curl-8_0_1
curl-8_10_0
curl-8_10_1
curl-8_11_0
curl-8_11_1
curl-8_12_0
curl-8_12_1
curl-8_13_0
curl-8_14_0
curl-8_14_1
curl-8_15_0
curl-8_16_0
curl-8_17_0
curl-8_18_0
curl-8_19_0
curl-8_1_0
curl-8_1_1
curl-8_1_2
curl-8_20_0
curl-8_21_0
curl-8_22_0
curl-8_2_0
curl-8_2_1
curl-8_3_0
curl-8_4_0
curl-8_5_0
curl-8_6_0
curl-8_7_0
curl-8_7_1
curl-8_8_0
curl-8_9_0
curl-8_9_1
rc-8_18_0-1
rc-8_18_0-2
rc-8_18_0-3
rc-8_19_0-1
rc-8_19_0-2
rc-8_19_0-3
rc-8_20_0-1
rc-8_20_0-2
rc-8_20_0-3
rc-8_21_0-1
rc-8_21_0-2
rc-8_21_0-3
rc-8_22_0-1
rc-8_22_0-2
rc-8_22_0-3
rc-8_23_0-1
tiny-curl-7_72_0
tiny-curl-8_4_0

Database specific

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