OCSP stapling bypass with Apple SecTrust
Priority MEDIUM 63CWE-295Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as *OCSP stapling*, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it fails to detect OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00274 19th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 1 advisory
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat 1 advisory
- RHSA-2026:19106 Released 2026-05-19 · Red Hat rating ModerateRed Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- Red Hat Hardened Images curl-8.20.0-2.hum1@aarch64, curl-8.20.0-2.hum1@src, curl-8.20.0-2.hum1@x86_64 +6
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Hardened Images | Fixed | RHSA-2026:19106 |
Not affected: 9 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
- Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
- Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-7009
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-v355-7mqg-qj9c
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
More curl vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-19922 Out-of-bounds write in curl CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-16162 Negotiate ambient user conn reuse CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-10231 cross-origin Digest auth state leak CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-09063 HTTP/2 stream-dependency tree UAF CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-07976 stale proxy password leak CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-07845 SASL double-free CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-7009 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-7009 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-v355-7mqg-qj9c · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-7009 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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