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password leak with netrc and user in URL

curl · CVE-2026-8926
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What is it?

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://user@example.com/`, 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.

Evidence

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Exploitation

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CVSS
9.1
EPSS
0.4%
First seen
2 d ago
Status
corroborated

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