USN-8932-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2026-86409)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-10-14 19:26 – Updated: 2026-10-14 19:26 – Source websiteStanislav Fort discovered that curl did not properly clear AWS SigV4 authentication state when CURLOPT_AWS_SIGV4 was set to NULL. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-86409)
Stanislav Fort discovered that an HTTP proxy could trick libcurl into sending credentials to the proxy itself by responding to a CONNECT request with an unexpected authentication challenge. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-86414)
Stanislav Fort discovered that curl did not correctly handle HSTS entries when an includeSubDomains parent entry was imported before a longer-lived child entry. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to use unencrypted HTTP connections. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-87862)
Stanislav Fort discovered that curl did not properly handle HSTS max-age values that exceeded calendar time structure bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or data loss. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-87863)
Stanislav Fort discovered that curl did not properly handle IMAP APPEND commands when CURLOPT_CRLF was enabled, allowing overflow bytes to be interpreted as pipelined commands. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary IMAP commands. (CVE-2026-87864)
Joshua Rogers discovered that libcurl had a use-after-free vulnerability in the FTP wildcard matching code. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-92388)
Joshua Rogers discovered that libcurl's TFTP state machine did not properly validate transfer directions, allowing a malicious server to force the client into transmit mode. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-92389)
Joshua Rogers discovered that curl had a stack overflow vulnerability when processing deeply nested MIME structures. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-92391)
Joshua Rogers discovered that libcurl could expose credentials in the URL returned by CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL when credentials were retrieved from a .netrc file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-94266)
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.