Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data in cURL - CVE-2026-82209

 

Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data in cURL - CVE-2026-82209

Published: September 2, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU146676
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-82209
CWE-ID: CWE-201
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to information exposure through sent data in the libcurl cookie handling logic when processing a Set-Cookie header with a Domain attribute matching an origin host that is itself a public suffix. A remote attacker can induce the client to send a previously stored cookie to an arbitrary sibling subdomain under the same public suffix to disclose sensitive information.

Exploitation requires libpsl support to be enabled, the apex public-suffix host to issue the cookie, and the client to subsequently contact an attacker-controlled sibling subdomain.


Affected software

cURL
Ubuntu
openEuler
Anolis OS
curl-help
libcurl-devel
libcurl
curl-debugsource
curl-debuginfo
curl
curl-minimal
libcurl-minimal
curl-doc
curl (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2026-82209

Install security update from vendor's website.

cURL - update to 8.22.0
curl-help - addressed in versions 7.71.1-54, 7.79.1-56, 8.4.0-37
libcurl-devel - addressed in versions 7.71.1-54, 7.79.1-56, 8.4.0-37
libcurl - addressed in versions 7.71.1-54, 7.79.1-56, 8.4.0-37
curl-debugsource - addressed in versions 7.71.1-54, 7.79.1-56, 8.4.0-37
curl-debuginfo - addressed in versions 7.71.1-54, 7.79.1-56, 8.4.0-37
curl - addressed in versions 7.71.1-54, 7.79.1-56, 8.4.0-37
curl - update to 8.4.0-30
curl-minimal - update to 8.4.0-30
libcurl - update to 8.4.0-30
libcurl-devel - update to 8.4.0-30
libcurl-minimal - update to 8.4.0-30
curl-doc - update to 8.4.0-30
curl (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm20, 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.24+esm14, 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.25+esm9, 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.29, 8.5.0-2ubuntu10.15, 8.18.0-1ubuntu2.7

External References

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