Bug 2497476 - CVE-2026-8926 mingw-curl: curl: Information disclosure via incorrect .netrc password lookup [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-8926 mingw-curl: curl: Information disclosure via incorrect .netrc p...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mingw-curl
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Michael Cronenworth
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["ed2dc8c0-2497-40f1-b063-4...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-8926
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Reported: 2026-07-06 20:23 UTC by Jon Moroney
Modified: 2026-08-17 15:14 UTC (History)
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Description Jon Moroney 2026-07-06 20:23:14 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

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.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:14:54 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.


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