CVE-2025-9086
Published: Sep 12, 2025
Modified: Jun 2, 2026
Description
1. A cookie is set using the `secure` keyword for `https://target` 2. curl is redirected to or otherwise made to speak with `http://target` (same hostname, but using clear text HTTP) using the same cookie set 3. The same cookie name is set - but with just a slash as path (`path=\"/\",`). Since this site is not secure, the cookie *should* just be ignored. 4. A bug in the path comparison logic makes curl read outside a heap buffer boundary The bug either causes a crash or it potentially makes the comparison come to the wrong conclusion and lets the clear-text site override the contents of the secure cookie, contrary to expectations and depending on the memory contents immediately following the single-byte allocation that holds the path. The presumed and correct behavior would be to plainly ignore the second set of the cookie since it was already set as secure on a secure host so overriding it on an insecure host should not be okay.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
curl | curl | affected 8.15.0 - <= 8.15.0affected 8.14.1 - <= 8.14.1affected 8.14.0 - <= 8.14.0affected 8.13.0 - <= 8.13.0 |
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