Bug 2394750 (CVE-2025-9086) - CVE-2025-9086 curl: libcurl: Curl out of bounds read for cookie path
Summary: CVE-2025-9086 curl: libcurl: Curl out of bounds read for cookie path
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-9086
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2394877 2394878 2394879 2394880 2394881 2394883 2394885 2394886 2394882 2394884
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-09-12 06:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-12 20:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-12 06:01:28 UTC
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 just a slash as path (`path='/'`).
   Since this site is not secure, the cookie *should* just 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.


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