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Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

CVE-2026-8932

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

libcurl would reuse a previously created connection even when some mTLS config related option had been changed that should have prohibited reuse.Affected versions are curl 7.7 through 8.20.0. libcurl keeps previously used connections in a connection pool for subsequent transfers to reuse if one of them matches the setup. However, some TLS settings related to client certificates were left out from the configuration match checks, making them match too easily. In particular options related to the private key.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

The authentication algorithm is sound, but the implemented mechanism can be bypassed as the result of a separate weakness that is primary to the authentication error.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published