TI-2026-77670 Aliases CVE-2026-94265 GHSA-qqmr-6r9w-pmx5

Credential leak in curl redirects to URLs with userinfo

HIGH 80CWE-200Published 2026-10-20 · Updated 2026-10-30

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-200.

Summary

curl 8.21.0 and 8.22.0 are affected. When following an HTTP redirect to a URL that contains userinfo, curl keeps and resends the original host's HTTP Negotiate authentication state, exposing sensitive information (CWE-200). A remote malicious server can trigger such a redirect without authentication or user interaction, making curl send a freshly minted Kerberos ticket from the client's identity to an untrusted third-party host.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30

Description from the CNA

When processing an HTTP redirect to a URL containing userinfo (a `username:password` component), curl might erroneously retain and re-transmit the original host's HTTP Negotiate authentication state. Consequently, a malicious server can trigger a redirect containing arbitrary userinfo to force curl to send a freshly minted Kerberos ticket—generated using the ambient identity of the client process to an untrusted third-party host, effectively bypassing the domain-scoping restrictions normally enforced by the absence of `--location-trusted`.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00776 56th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed Red Hat: 1 advisory

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
curl	curl	8.22.0 – 8.22.0; 8.21.0 – 8.21.0	—	No fix listed	CNA

curl Vendorcurl Affected 8.22.0 – 8.22.0; 8.21.0 – 8.21.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl::::::::	—	—	Haxx

cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·Haxx

Remediation

The sources list no fixed version for curl.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30

Red Hat 1 advisory

RHSA-2026:82895 Released 2026-10-14 · Red Hat rating Important
Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- Red Hat Hardened Images curl-8.23.0-0.1.hum1@aarch64, curl-8.23.0-0.1.hum1@s390x, curl-8.23.0-0.1.hum1@src +10

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Hardened Images	Fixed	RHSA-2026:82895

Not affected: 9 products

Confidential Compute Attestation
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 Hardened Images
Red Hat JBoss Core Services
Red Hat Satellite 6

Timeline

2026-10-21 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-94265
2026-10-21 Alias added: GHSA-qqmr-6r9w-pmx5
2026-10-30 CVSS score added · CISA ADP
2026-10-30 Weakness changed · CISA ADP
2026-10-30 CISA SSVC decision points changed
2026-10-30 Priority changed: LOW → HIGH
2026-10-31 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

References

Other 3

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

See all 103 →

Sources

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