CVE-2025-15079
5.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.46%
Description
When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the known_hosts file, libcurl could still mistakenly accept connecting to hosts *not present* in the specified file if they were added as recognized in the libssh *global* known_hosts file.
How to fix CVE-2025-15079
To remediate CVE-2025-15079, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/curl—upgrade to 0 or later
Is CVE-2025-15079 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 7.58.0, < 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |