Answer in brief
CVE-2026-8926 records a Critical severity (CVSS 9.1) vulnerability in password leak with netrc and user in URL. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps curl/curl (generic), curl/curl (generic), curl/curl (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.
CVSS is 9.1. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps curl/curl (generic), curl/curl (generic), curl/curl (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| curl/curlgeneric | >=8.11.1 <8.14.2 || >=8.15.0 <8.16.1 || >=8.17.0 <8.20.1 | 8.14.2, 8.16.1, 8.20.1 |
| curl/curlgeneric | >=e9b9bbac22c26cf67316fa8e6c6b9e831af31949 <4ae1d7cc2643e4773a136395f12bc02fc6867854 | 4ae1d7cc2643e4773a136395f12bc02fc6867854 |
| curl/curlgeneric | 8.20.0 || 8.19.0 || 8.18.0 || 8.17.0 || 8.16.0 || 8.15.0 || 8.14.1 || 8.14.0 || 8.13.0 || 8.12.1 || 8.12.0 || 8.11.1 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jul 3, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 15, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jul 3, 2026
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://[email protected]/`, 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.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.