CURL-CVE-2025-15079

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Source
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15079.html
Import Source
https://curl.se/docs/CURL-CVE-2025-15079.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CURL-CVE-2025-15079
Aliases
Published
2026-01-07T08:00:00Z
Modified
2026-05-21T06:00:06.488195052Z
Summary
libssh global known_hosts override
Details

When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the knownhosts 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 knownhosts file.

Database specific 
{
    "CWE": {
        "id": "CWE-297",
        "desc": "Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch"
    },
    "severity": "Low",
    "www": "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15079.html",
    "affects": "both",
    "award": {
        "currency": "USD",
        "amount": "505"
    },
    "URL": "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15079.json",
    "issue": "https://hackerone.com/reports/3477116",
    "package": "curl",
    "last_affected": "8.17.0"
}
References
Credits
    • Harry Sintonen - FINDER
    • Daniel Stenberg - REMEDIATION_DEVELOPER

Affected packages

Git / github.com/curl/curl.git

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
7.58.0
Fixed
8.18.0
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/curl/curl.git
Events
Introduced
c92d2e14cfb0db662f958effd2ac86f995cf1b5a
Fixed
adca486c125d9a6d9565b9607a19dce803a8b479

Affected versions

7.*
7.58.0
7.59.0
7.60.0
7.61.0
7.61.1
7.62.0
7.63.0
7.64.0
7.64.1
7.65.0
7.65.1
7.65.2
7.65.3
7.66.0
7.67.0
7.68.0
7.69.0
7.69.1
7.70.0
7.71.0
7.71.1
7.72.0
7.73.0
7.74.0
7.75.0
7.76.0
7.76.1
7.77.0
7.78.0
7.79.0
7.79.1
7.80.0
7.81.0
7.82.0
7.83.0
7.83.1
7.84.0
7.85.0
7.86.0
7.87.0
7.88.0
7.88.1
8.*
8.0.0
8.0.1
8.1.0
8.1.1
8.1.2
8.10.0
8.10.1
8.11.0
8.11.1
8.12.0
8.12.1
8.13.0
8.14.0
8.14.1
8.15.0
8.16.0
8.17.0
8.2.0
8.2.1
8.3.0
8.4.0
8.5.0
8.6.0
8.7.0
8.7.1
8.8.0
8.9.0
8.9.1
Other
curl-7_58_0
curl-7_59_0
curl-7_60_0
curl-7_61_0
curl-7_61_1
curl-7_62_0
curl-7_63_0
curl-7_64_0
curl-7_64_1
curl-7_65_0
curl-7_65_1
curl-7_65_2
curl-7_65_3
curl-7_66_0
curl-7_67_0
curl-7_68_0
curl-7_69_0
curl-7_69_1
curl-7_70_0
curl-7_71_0
curl-7_71_1
curl-7_72_0
curl-7_73_0
curl-7_74_0
curl-7_75_0
curl-7_76_0
curl-7_76_1
curl-7_77_0
curl-7_78_0
curl-7_79_0
curl-7_79_1
curl-7_80_0
curl-7_81_0
curl-7_82_0
curl-7_83_0
curl-7_83_1
curl-7_84_0
curl-7_85_0
curl-7_86_0
curl-7_87_0
curl-7_88_0
curl-7_88_1
curl-8_0_0
curl-8_0_1
curl-8_10_0
curl-8_10_1
curl-8_11_0
curl-8_11_1
curl-8_12_0
curl-8_12_1
curl-8_13_0
curl-8_14_0
curl-8_14_1
curl-8_15_0
curl-8_16_0
curl-8_17_0
curl-8_1_0
curl-8_1_1
curl-8_1_2
curl-8_2_0
curl-8_2_1
curl-8_3_0
curl-8_4_0
curl-8_5_0
curl-8_6_0
curl-8_7_0
curl-8_7_1
curl-8_8_0
curl-8_9_0
curl-8_9_1
rc-8_18_0-1
rc-8_18_0-2
tiny-curl-7_72_0
tiny-curl-8_4_0

Database specific

source 
"https://curl.se/docs/CURL-CVE-2025-15079.json"