CVE-2026-8926
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.61%
Description
When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same time specifying a URL with a username(without a password), like `https://user@example.com/`, curl could wrongly get and use the password for *another* user set in the `.netrc` file for that host if such a one exists and there is no match for the specified user.
How to fix CVE-2026-8926
To remediate CVE-2026-8926, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 8.21.0-r0 or later
Is CVE-2026-8926 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 8.11.1, < 8.21.0-r0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |