Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-5773
libcurl might in some circumstances reuse the wrong connection for SMB(S)
transfers.
libcurl features a pool of recent connections so that subsequent requests can
reuse an existing connection to avoid overhead.
When reusing a connection a range of criteria must be met. Due to a logical
error in the code, a network transfer operation that was requested by an
application could wrongfully reuse an existing SMB connection to the same
server that was using a different 'share' than the new subsequent transfer
should.
This could in unlucky situations lead to the download of the wrong file or the
upload of a file to the wrong place. When this happens, the same credentials
are used and the server name is the same.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 5.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-5773
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.40.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.41.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.42.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.42.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.43.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.44.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.45.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.46.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.47.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.47.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.48.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.49.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.49.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.50.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.50.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.50.2
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.50.3
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.51.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.52.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.52.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.53.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.53.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.54.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.54.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.55.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.55.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.56.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.56.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.57.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.58.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.59.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.60.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.61.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.61.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.62.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.63.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.64.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.64.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.65.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.65.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.65.2
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.65.3
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.66.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.67.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.68.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.69.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.69.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.70.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.71.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.71.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.72.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.73.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.74.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.75.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.76.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.76.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.77.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.78.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.79.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.79.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.80.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.81.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.82.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.83.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.83.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.84.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.85.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.86.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.87.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.88.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.88.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.12.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.13.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.14.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.14.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.15.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.16.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.17.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.18.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:8.9.1