CVE-2026-8926

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Publication date:

03/07/2026

Last modified:

07/07/2026

Description

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

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.10 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None