CriticalFix available
curl — security advisory
A flaw in curl’s cookie parsing logic allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" that bypass the Public Suffix List check. This enables an attacker-controlled origin to inject cookies that curl subsequently scopes and transmits to unrelated third-party domains.
- Products
- curl
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 8.14.1-r3, 8.14.1-r4, 8.21.0-r0, 8.22.0-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-8924
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 06:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw in curl’s cookie parsing logic allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" that bypass the Public Suffix List check. This enables an attacker-controlled origin to inject cookies that curl subsequently scopes and transmits to unrelated third-party domains.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2026-8924
curl
Fixed versions: 8.14.1-r3
curl
Fixed versions: 8.14.1-r4
curl
Fixed versions: 8.22.0-r0
curl
Fixed versions: 8.21.0-r0
Complete source record
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