CVE-2025-14524

bearer token leak on cross-protocol redirect

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Jan 8, 2026
Updated
Sep 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 11, 2025

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Description

When an OAuth2 bearer token is used for an HTTP(S) transfer, and that transfer performs a cross-protocol redirect to a second URL that uses an IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP scheme, curl might wrongly pass on the bearer token to the new target host.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Affected Products

ProductVersions
curlcurl
  • 7.33.0 to before 8.14.2Affected
  • 8.15.0 to before 8.16.1Affected
  • 8.17.0 to before 8.18.0Affected
curlcurl
  • 06c1bea72faabb6fad4b7ef818aafaa336c9a7aa to before 1a822275d333dc6da6043497160fd04c8fa48640Affected
curlcurl
  • 8.17.0Affected
  • 8.16.0Affected
  • 8.15.0Affected
  • 8.14.1Affected
  • 8.14.0Affected
  • 8.13.0Affected
  • 8.12.1Affected
  • 8.12.0Affected
  • 8.11.1Affected
  • 8.11.0Affected
  • 8.10.1Affected
  • 8.10.0Affected
  • 8.9.1Affected
  • 8.9.0Affected
  • 8.8.0Affected
  • 8.7.1Affected
  • 8.7.0Affected
  • 8.6.0Affected
  • 8.5.0Affected
  • 8.4.0Affected
  • 8.3.0Affected
  • 8.2.1Affected
  • 8.2.0Affected
  • 8.1.2Affected
  • 8.1.1Affected
  • and 82 more versions

References

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