password leak with netrc and user in URL
Historical advisory recorded 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC. Read the latest advisory.
cve-program · CVE-2026-8926
PublishedWhen 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.
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cve-program · CVE-2026-8926
Publishedpassword leak with netrc and user in URL
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.
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- 3 Jul 2026 06:15:45 UTC
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- 15 Sep 2026 06:03:23 UTC
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- 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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