CVE-2025-9086
Out of bounds read for cookie path
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Sep 12, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 16, 2025
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
curlcurl |
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curlcurl |
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curlcurl |
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References
- 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
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