CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-15079
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-01-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-297
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.
Affected configurations
• haxx curl (>= 7.58.0 < 8.18.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-297 Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch weakness
References
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15079.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15079.json Vendor Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3477116 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/07/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory