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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-9546 (HIGH 7.5) — A vulnerability in libcurl caused the HTTP `Referer:` header to persist even when explicitly cleared. While the documentation states that passing NULL to `CURLOPT_REFERER` suppresses the header, the option failed to clear the internal state. As a result, the previous referrer str

[NVD] CVE-2026-9546 (HIGH 7.5) — A vulnerability in libcurl caused the HTTP `Referer:` header to persist even when explicitly cleared. While the documentation states that passing NULL to `CURLOPT_REFERER` suppresses the header, the option failed to clear the internal state. As a result, the previous referrer str

lownvdPublished 2026-07-03

CVE-2026-9546 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2026-07-03T07:16:25.893

A vulnerability in libcurl caused the HTTP `Referer:` header to persist even when explicitly cleared. While the documentation states that passing NULL to `CURLOPT_REFERER` suppresses the header, the option failed to clear the internal state. As a result, the previous referrer string was erroneously reused and sent in subsequent reque

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9546