Medium severity · published Jul 3, 2026
CVE-2026-8458
wrong reuse for different services
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
libcurl might in some circumstances reuse the wrong connection when asked to do Negotiate-authenticated ones, even when they are set to use different "services". libcurl features a pool of recent connections so that subsequent requests can reuse an existing connection to avoid overhead. When reusing a connection a range of criteria must be met. Due to a logical error in the code, a request that was issued by an application could wrongfully reuse an existing connection to the same server that was authenticated using different services.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CU
curl · curl
7.43.0 before 8.14.2; 8.15.0 before 8.16.1; 8.17.0 before 8.20.1; 97c272e5d173ad5f706443e2477f0a84f0044edd before 5e99b73cf441d9c369768b9cd48b5389b9a2503d; 8.20.0; 8.19.0; +34 more · source: vendor, NVD