CVE record · CVE-2026-6429

netrc credential leak with reused proxy connection

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0052 · 44th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: curl) at 13 May 2026, 08:28 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
curl	curl	affected 7.14.0 to before 8.14.2 semver affected 8.15.0 to before 8.16.1 semver affected 8.17.0 to before 8.20.0 semver Other versions: unaffected
curl	curl	affected 01165e08e0d131b399fba2190f17af67e66f0888 to before b4024bf808bd558026fdc6096e8457f199ace306 git Other versions: unaffected
curl	curl	affected 8.19.0 affected 8.18.0 affected 8.17.0 affected 8.16.0 affected 8.15.0 affected 8.14.1 affected 8.14.0 affected 8.13.0 affected 8.12.1 affected 8.12.0 affected 8.11.1 affected 8.11.0 and 146 more Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-6429
CNA: curl
Weakness (CWE): CWE-200
Tags: curl
Information disclosure
Published: 13 May 2026
Updated: 15 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.3	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0052, the 44th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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