THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-8926 (CRITICAL 9.1) — When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same
time specifying a URL with a username (without a password), like
`https://user@example.com/`, curl could wrongly get and use the password for
*another* user set in the `.netrc` file for that host if such
[NVD] CVE-2026-8926 (CRITICAL 9.1) — When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same time specifying a URL with a username (without a password), like `https://user@example.com/`, curl could wrongly get and use the password for *another* user set in the `.netrc` file for that host if such
CVE-2026-8926 CVSS: 9.1 CRITICAL Published: 2026-07-03T07:16:25.037
When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same time specifying a URL with a username (without a password), like `https://user@example.com/`, curl could wrongly get and use the password for *another* user set in the `.netrc` file for that host if such a one exists and there is no match for the specifie
MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- CredentialsT1589.001
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-8926cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8926