CVE-2025-15224

ℹ️ low

Summary

When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and asked to do public key authentication, curl would wrongly still ask and authenticate using a locally running SSH agent.

CVSS Score

3.1

Low

EPSS Score

0.1

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-01-08

First Seen: 2026-01-17

Last Modified 2026-01-20

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-287

🔗 References 4

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.html

Vendor Advisory Patch

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.json

Vendor Advisory

https://hackerone.com/reports/3480925

Exploit Third Party Advisory Issue Tracking

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/07/7

Mailing List Third Party Advisory Patch

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
haxx	curl	Affected	≥ 7.58.0 < 8.18.0

🔗 Related CVEs 6

CVE ID	Severity	CVSS	Summary	Published
CVE-2025-13034	🔶 medium	5.9	When using `CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY` option with libcurl or `--pinnedpubkey` with the curl tool,curl should check the pu...	2026-01-08
CVE-2025-14017	🔶 medium	6.3	When doing multi-threaded LDAPS transfers (LDAP over TLS) with libcurl, changing TLS options in one thread would inadver...	2026-01-08
CVE-2025-14524	🔶 medium	5.3	When an OAuth2 bearer token is used for an HTTP(S) transfer, and that transfer performs a cross-protocol redirect to a s...	2026-01-08
CVE-2025-14819	🔶 medium	5.3	When doing TLS related transfers with reused easy or multi handles and altering the `CURLSSLOPT_NO_PARTIALCHAIN` option...	2026-01-08
CVE-2025-15079	🔶 medium	5.3	When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the known_hosts file, libcurl could still mistakenl...	2026-01-08
CVE-2025-10966	🔶 medium	4.3	curl's code for managing SSH connections when SFTP was done using the wolfSSH powered backend was flawed and missed host...	2025-11-07

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