THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-7168 (MEDIUM 5.3) — Successfully using libcurl to do a transfer over a specific HTTP proxy
(`proxyA`) with **Digest** authentication and then changing the proxy host to
a second one (`proxyB`) for a second transfer, reusing the same handle, makes
libcurl wrongly pass on the `Proxy-Authorization:` he
[NVD] CVE-2026-7168 (MEDIUM 5.3) — Successfully using libcurl to do a transfer over a specific HTTP proxy (`proxyA`) with **Digest** authentication and then changing the proxy host to a second one (`proxyB`) for a second transfer, reusing the same handle, makes libcurl wrongly pass on the `Proxy-Authorization:` he
CVE-2026-7168 CVSS: 5.3 MEDIUM Published: 2026-05-13T13:01:57.200
Successfully using libcurl to do a transfer over a specific HTTP proxy (`proxyA`) with **Digest** authentication and then changing the proxy host to a second one (`proxyB`) for a second transfer, reusing the same handle, makes libcurl wrongly pass on the `Proxy-Authorization:` header field meant for `proxyA`, to `proxyB`.
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-7168cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7168