VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-6429

medium
Published 2026-05-13 · Modified 2026-05-14
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CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

When asked to both use a `.netrc` file for credentials and to follow HTTP redirects, libcurl could leak the password used for the first host to the followed-to host under certain circumstances.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed8.20.0~rc3-1
debian debiansidfixed8.20.0~rc3-1
debian debiantrixieaffected
suse slesaffected
windows windowsaffected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
haxxcurl{"startIncluding":"7.14.0","endExcluding":"8.20.0"}8.20.0
gcp googlegcp

References

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

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