🛡️ CVE-2025-15079
🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-297 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-297
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-08
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-01-20

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
curl 7.58.0 8.18.0

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://hackerone.com/reports/3477116
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Patch http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/07/6

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