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CVE-2026-8926: When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same time specifying a URL with a...

CRITICAL CVSS 0.0

Published: July 3, 2026 | Last Modified: July 3, 2026

Description

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://user@example.com/`, 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.

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