curl — security advisory
Successfully using libcurl to do a transfer over a specific HTTP proxy (`proxyA`) with **Digest** authentication and then changing the proxy host to a second one (`proxyB`) for a second transfer, reusing the same handle, makes libcurl wrongly pass on the `Proxy-Authorization:` header field meant for `proxyA`, to `proxyB`.
- Products
- curl
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 8.14.1-r3, 8.14.1-r4, 8.20.0-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-7168
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 06:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Successfully using libcurl to do a transfer over a specific HTTP proxy (`proxyA`) with **Digest** authentication and then changing the proxy host to a second one (`proxyB`) for a second transfer, reusing the same handle, makes libcurl wrongly pass on the `Proxy-Authorization:` header field meant for `proxyA`, to `proxyB`.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2026-7168
curl
Fixed versions: 8.14.1-r3
curl
Fixed versions: 8.14.1-r4
curl
Fixed versions: 8.20.0-r0
curl
Fixed versions: 8.20.0-r0
Complete source record
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