Critical severity · published Jul 3, 2026
CVE-2026-8926
password leak with netrc and user in URL
9.1
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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://user@example.com/`, 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CU
curl · curl
8.11.1 before 8.14.2; 8.15.0 before 8.16.1; 8.17.0 before 8.20.1; e9b9bbac22c26cf67316fa8e6c6b9e831af31949 before 4ae1d7cc2643e4773a136395f12bc02fc6867854; 8.20.0; 8.19.0; +10 more · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8926
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8926
Patch
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-8926.html
Vendor Advisory
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-8926.json
Exploit
https://hackerone.com/reports/3735184
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