UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15079

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-15079

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15079.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15079

Upstream

CVE-2025-15079

Published

2026-01-06T07:00:00Z

Modified

2026-01-14T21:50:37.195980Z

Severity

5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - low

Summary

[none]

Details

When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the knownhosts file, libcurl could still mistakenly accept connecting to hosts *not present* in the specified file if they were added as recognized in the libssh *global* knownhosts file.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / curl

Package

Name: curl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

7.*

7.55.1-1ubuntu2

7.55.1-1ubuntu2.1

7.57.0-1ubuntu1

7.58.0-2ubuntu1

7.58.0-2ubuntu2

7.58.0-2ubuntu3

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.1

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.5

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.6

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.7

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.10

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.12

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.13

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.14

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.15

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.16

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.17

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.18

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.19

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.20

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.21

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.22

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.23

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm1

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm2

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm3

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm4

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "priority_reason": "This is rated as being low severity by Curl developers",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "curl",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-nss",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-gnutls-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-nss-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-openssl-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm5"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15079.json"

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / curl

Package

Name: curl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

7.*

7.65.3-1ubuntu3

7.65.3-1ubuntu4

7.66.0-1ubuntu1

7.67.0-2ubuntu1

7.68.0-1ubuntu1

7.68.0-1ubuntu2

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.2

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.4

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.5

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.6

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.7

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.10

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.11

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.12

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.13

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.14

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.15

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.16

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.18

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.21

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.22

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.23

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.24

7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25

Ecosystem specific

{
    "priority_reason": "This is rated as being low severity by Curl developers",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "curl",
            "binary_version": "7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls",
            "binary_version": "7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-nss",
            "binary_version": "7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4",
            "binary_version": "7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-gnutls-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-nss-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-openssl-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15079.json"

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / curl

Package

Name: curl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

7.*

7.74.0-1.3ubuntu2

7.74.0-1.3ubuntu3

7.80.0-3

7.81.0-1

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.1

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.2

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.4

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.6

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.7

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.10

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.11

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.13

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.14

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.15

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.16

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.17

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.18

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.19

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.20

7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21

Ecosystem specific

{
    "priority_reason": "This is rated as being low severity by Curl developers",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "curl",
            "binary_version": "7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls",
            "binary_version": "7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-nss",
            "binary_version": "7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4",
            "binary_version": "7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-gnutls-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-nss-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-openssl-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15079.json"

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / curl

Package

Name: curl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@8.5.0-2ubuntu10.6?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

8.*

8.2.1-1ubuntu3

8.2.1-1ubuntu3.1

8.4.0-2ubuntu1

8.5.0-2ubuntu1

8.5.0-2ubuntu2

8.5.0-2ubuntu8

8.5.0-2ubuntu9

8.5.0-2ubuntu10

8.5.0-2ubuntu10.1

8.5.0-2ubuntu10.2

8.5.0-2ubuntu10.3

8.5.0-2ubuntu10.4

8.5.0-2ubuntu10.5

8.5.0-2ubuntu10.6

Ecosystem specific

{
    "priority_reason": "This is rated as being low severity by Curl developers",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "curl",
            "binary_version": "8.5.0-2ubuntu10.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3t64-gnutls",
            "binary_version": "8.5.0-2ubuntu10.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-gnutls-dev",
            "binary_version": "8.5.0-2ubuntu10.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-openssl-dev",
            "binary_version": "8.5.0-2ubuntu10.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4t64",
            "binary_version": "8.5.0-2ubuntu10.6"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15079.json"