CVE record · CVE-2026-9079

stale proxy password leak

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.011 · 64th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: curl) at 3 Jul 2026, 06:16 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 8.8.0 to before 8.14.2 semver affected 8.15.0 to before 8.16.1 semver affected 8.17.0 to before 8.20.1 semver Other versions: unaffected
curl	curl	affected d5e83eb745762f48d8fafadc5df5dd3ae8d8941e to before 88c7e16cceec816a2df45c899d49b1e85513f193 git Other versions: unaffected
curl	curl	affected 8.20.0 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 and 6 more Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-9079
CNA: curl
Weakness (CWE): CWE-522
Tags: curl
Hard-coded credentials
Published: 3 Jul 2026
Updated: 15 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.011, the 64th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 3 Jul 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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