VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-3236

medium
Published 2015-06-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

cURL and libcurl 7.40.0 through 7.42.1 send the HTTP Basic authentication credentials for a previous connection when reusing a reset (curl_easy_reset) connection handle to send a request to the same host name, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed7.43.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7.43.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed7.43.0-1
debian debiansidfixed7.43.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7.43.0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
haxxcurl7.40.0
haxxcurl7.41.0
haxxcurl7.42.0
haxxcurl7.42.1
haxxlibcurl7.40.0
haxxlibcurl7.41.0
haxxlibcurl7.42.0
haxxlibcurl7.42.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.