CVE-2025-9086
CVE-2025-9086 · Out of bounds read for cookie path
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1. A cookie is set using the `secure` keyword for `https://target` 2. curl is redirected to or otherwise made to speak with `http://target` (same hostname, but using clear text HTTP) using the same cookie set 3. The same cookie name is set - but with only a slash as path (`path="/"`). Since this site is not secure, the cookie *should* be ignored. 4. A bug in the path comparison logic makes curl read outside a heap buffer boundary The bug either causes a crash or it potentially makes the comparison come to the wrong conclusion and lets the clear-text site override the contents of the secure cookie, contrary to expectations and depending on the memory contents immediately following the single-byte allocation that holds the path. The presumed and correct behavior would be to plainly ignore the second set of the cookie since it was already set as secure on a secure host so overriding it on an insecure host should not be okay.
CVSS 7.5 · High · EPSS 1.5% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
curl
- Versions
- ≥ 8.13.0, < 8.14.2: Affected (semver)
- ≥ 8.15.0, < 8.16.0: Affected (semver)
Update to 8.14.2; Update to 8.16.0
curl
- Versions
- ≥ 1aea05a6c2699e80c75936d58569851555acd603, < c6ae07c6a541e0e96d0040afb62b45dd37711300: Affected (git)
No fix published
curl
- Versions
- 8.15.0: Affected
- 8.14.1: Affected
- 8.14.0: Affected
- 8.13.0: Affected
No fix published
curl Debian:13
- Versions
- 8.14.1-2
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 8.14.1-2+deb13u1
Update to 8.14.1-2+deb13u1
curl Debian:14
- Versions
- 8.14.1-2
- 8.14.1-2+exp1
- 8.15.0-1
- 8.15.0-1~bpo13+1
- 8.15.0-1~exp1
- 8.15.0~rc1-1exp1
- 8.15.0~rc2-1~exp1
- 8.15.0~rc3-1~exp1
- 8.16.0~rc1-1~exp1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 8.16.0~rc2-1
Update to 8.16.0~rc2-1
curl Ubuntu:25.10
- Versions
- 8.12.1-3ubuntu1
- 8.13.0-5ubuntu1
- 8.14.1-1ubuntu2
- 8.14.1-1ubuntu3
- 8.14.1-2ubuntu1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 8.14.1-2ubuntu1.1
Update to 8.14.1-2ubuntu1.1
Original sources
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-9086.json
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-9086.html
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3294999
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/10/1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00002.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-089022.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9086