CVE-2026-6429Medium· 5.3▾ SunlitWhen asked to both use a `.netrc` file for credentials and to follow HTTP redirects, libcurl could leak the password used for the first host to the followed-to host under certain circumstances.
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 29.2 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 15.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.5%
When asked to both use a .netrc file for credentials and to follow HTTP
redirects, libcurl could leak the password used for the first host to the
followed-to host under certain circumstances.
curl >= 7.14.0, < 8.20.0Upgrade past the affected range:
curl 8.20.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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