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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
curlcurl
  • 8.13.0 to before 8.14.2Affected
  • 8.15.0 to before 8.16.0Affected
curlcurl
  • 1aea05a6c2699e80c75936d58569851555acd603 to before c6ae07c6a541e0e96d0040afb62b45dd37711300Affected
curlcurl
  • 8.15.0Affected
  • 8.14.1Affected
  • 8.14.0Affected
  • 8.13.0Affected

References

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