Use-after-free in cURL - CVE-2026-9080

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Use-after-free in cURL - CVE-2026-9080

Published: June 24, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU135086
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-9080
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to use-after-free in the libcurl socket callback handling when calling curl_easy_pause() within the CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION callback. A local user can invoke the affected callback sequence to cause a denial of service.

This issue affects libcurl and does not affect the curl command line tool.


Affected software

cURL
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher
Ubuntu
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
LANTIME Operating System Firmware (LTOS)
curl (Ubuntu package)
curl
curl-debuginfo
curl-debugsource
libcurl
libcurl-devel
curl-help
libcurl-devel-32bit
libcurl-mini4-debuginfo
libcurl4-32bit-debuginfo
libcurl4-32bit
libcurl4
libcurl4-debuginfo
curl-mini-debugsource
libcurl-mini4
libcurl4-64bit-debuginfo
libcurl-devel-64bit
libcurl4-64bit
curl-fish-completion
libcurl-devel-doc
curl-zsh-completion

How to mitigate CVE-2026-9080

Install security update from vendor's website.

cURL - update to 8.21.0
LANTIME Operating System Firmware (LTOS) - update to 7.10.013
curl (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm20, 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm23, 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm16, 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm20, 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm9, 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm14, 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25+esm4, 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25+esm9, 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.25, 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.29, 8.5.0-2ubuntu10.10, 8.5.0-2ubuntu10.15, 8.14.1-2ubuntu1.4, 8.18.0-1ubuntu2.2, 8.18.0-1ubuntu2.7
curl - addressed in versions 7.71.1-52, 7.79.1-53, 8.4.0-35
curl-debuginfo - addressed in versions 7.71.1-52, 7.79.1-53, 8.4.0-35
curl-debugsource - addressed in versions 7.71.1-52, 7.79.1-53, 8.4.0-35
libcurl - addressed in versions 7.71.1-52, 7.79.1-53, 8.4.0-35
libcurl-devel - addressed in versions 7.71.1-52, 7.79.1-53, 8.4.0-35
curl-help - addressed in versions 7.71.1-52, 7.79.1-53, 8.4.0-35
libcurl-devel-32bit - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
libcurl-mini4-debuginfo - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
libcurl4-32bit-debuginfo - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1, 8.14.1-150700.7.20.1
libcurl4-32bit - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1, 8.14.1-150700.7.20.1
libcurl4 - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1, 8.14.1-150700.7.20.1
curl-debuginfo - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1, 8.14.1-150700.7.20.1
libcurl-devel - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1, 8.14.1-150700.7.20.1
libcurl4-debuginfo - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1, 8.14.1-150700.7.20.1
curl-debugsource - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1, 8.14.1-150700.7.20.1
curl - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1, 8.14.1-150700.7.20.1
curl-mini-debugsource - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
libcurl-mini4 - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
libcurl4-64bit-debuginfo - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
libcurl-devel-64bit - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
libcurl4-64bit - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
curl-fish-completion - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
libcurl-devel-doc - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
curl-zsh-completion - addressed in versions 8.14.1-150400.5.86.1, 8.14.1-150600.4.46.1
curl - addressed in versions 8.15.0-9.fc43, 8.18.0-9.fc44

External References

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