CVE-2026-8926 — password leak with netrc and user in URL
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 co…
Published: 2026-07-03 · CVSS: 9.1 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7