OpenSSL provider use-after-free (curl curl)

CVE-2026-80229
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.56 % · percentile 47 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
curl
NVD status
Modified

Description

When performing transfers via libcurl’s multi interface, pooled TLS connections can outlive their originating easy handles. In OpenSSL 3 provider configurations, libcurl attaches an allocated library context to the easy handle's state and passes it to OpenSSL without acquiring an ownership reference; destroying the easy handle prematurely frees this context while the active connection retains a dangling pointer, leading to a heap-use-after-free upon subsequent I/O or post-handshake operations.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
curl · curlaffected 8.14.0 < 8.14.2 ; affected 8.15.0 < 8.16.1 ; affected 8.17.0 < 8.20.1 ; affected 8.21.0 < 8.22.0
curl · curlaffected f2ce6c46b9dcc46ced0ce43fa95176ea7599a854 < 7ea37abc6ac0120ba5f6d94be8d196f7cf1506bb
curl · curlaffected 8.21.0 ; affected 8.20.0 ; affected 8.19.0 ; affected 8.18.0 ; affected 8.17.0 ; affected 8.16.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD