CVE-2022-35252
LowCVSS 3.7Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
High risk90th percentile - higher than 90% of all known CVEs
Summary
When curl is used to retrieve and parse cookies from a HTTP(S) server, it accepts cookies using control codes that when later are sent back to a HTTP server might make the server return 400 responses. Effectively allowing a "sister site" to deny service to all siblings.
Risk Assessment
An attacker controlling one related domain can cause a denial of service for other sites under the same parent domain, disrupting their availability.
Recommendation
Update curl to a patched version (7.85.0 or later). Also review cookie handling configuration in applications using curl.
Other vulnerabilities in curl
See all- CVE-2024-9681Medium
When curl is asked to use HSTS, the expiry time for a subdomain might overwrite a parent domain's cache entry, making it end sooner or later than otherwise intended. This affects applications using HSTS and URLs with the insecure HTTP:// scheme.
- CVE-2026-94265Critical
When processing an HTTP redirect to a URL containing userinfo (a username:password component), curl might erroneously retain and re-transmit the original host's HTTP Negotiate authentication state. Consequently, a malicious server can trigger a redirect containing arbitrary userinfo to force curl to send a freshly minted Kerberos ticket to an untrusted third-party host, effectively bypassing the domain-scoping restrictions normally enforced by the absence of --location-trusted.
- CVE-2026-87866Critical
When built with wolfSSL, curl can successfully validate a pinned public key hash against a key the TLS peer does not possess. During the TLS handshake, wolfSSL validates the connection, but curl's subsequent re-parsing of the same certificate, tricked by a manipulated validity length field, extracts and matches a different embedded key, incorrectly authorizing the pinned public key.
- CVE-2026-87861Critical
When using ambient user credentials, an HTTP request directed to one origin may be dispatched over a connection previously authenticated via Negotiate for a different origin, leaving the request's intended credentials unused.
- CVE-2026-86414Critical
An HTTP proxy can trick libcurl into sending the origin's credentials (Basic password or a Negotiate/Kerberos ticket) to the proxy itself by answering the CONNECT tunnel request with 401 WWW-Authenticate instead of the expected 407 Proxy-Authenticate.
- CVE-2026-86413Critical
When using an ambient user in a first transfer doing Negotiate authentication and asked to follow redirects, curl could pass on its credential details to an unrelated second origin when asked to redirect there.
- CVE-2026-86411Critical
An ftp:// transfer configured with CURLUSESSL_NONE can reuse a pooled FTP control connection that a previous easy handle upgraded with STARTTLS and authenticated using a client certificate. The second handle performs neither a new TLS handshake nor a new FTP login, so the server continues to authorize it under the first handle's certificate identity.
- CVE-2026-8926Critical
When curl uses a .netrc file for credentials and a URL with a username (without password) is specified, curl may wrongly retrieve and use the password of another user from .netrc for that host if no match exists for the specified user.
- CVE-2026-8925Critical
A double-free vulnerability has been found in the curl library's SASL authentication handling. The GSASL context is cleaned up twice without clearing the pointer, causing free() to be called on the same memory region twice.
- CVE-2026-8924Critical
A flaw in curl's cookie parsing logic allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" that bypass the Public Suffix List check, enabling injection of cookies that curl scopes and sends to unrelated third-party domains.
Original NVD description (English source)
When curl is used to retrieve and parse cookies from a HTTP(S) server, itaccepts cookies using control codes that when later are sent back to a HTTPserver might make the server return 400 responses. Effectively allowing a"sister site" to deny service to all siblings.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

