🛡️ CVE-2026-8926 on Alpine — curl

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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://[email protected]/, 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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-8926 as tracked by Alpine, for the package curl. The fix is available in version 8.21.0-r0; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Affected software

ALPINE-CVE-2026-8926 is recorded against 1 package.

  • curl (from 8.11.1 up to 8.21.0-r0)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 July 2026 and last revised on 8 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security.alpinelinux.org (Advisory)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-03
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
curl 8.11.1 8.21.0-r0

Exploit Protection

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