CVE-2026-13608

⚠️ high

Summary

A flaw in the libcurl SASL negotiation for LDAP authentication allows an incomplete handshake sequence to be misinterpreted as a successful cryptographic verification. An attacker executing a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack can inject a premature or shortcut response that bypasses complete peer validation.

CVSS Score

7.4

High

EPSS Score

0.6

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-09-06

First Seen: 2026-09-07

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Moderate Risk - more severe than 55.9% of all 358,566 vulnerabilities in our database.

#158,213

Above average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Sep 8, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

Poc

Proof-of-concept available

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Total

Complete system compromise possible

🏆 Discovered By

Eunsoo Kim (Autonomous Code Security team at Microsoft) Eunsoo Kim (remediation developer)

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-09-15

Source NVD 🔗

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

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-923

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
haxx	curl	Affected	> 7.82.0 < 8.22.0

🔗 References 3

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-13608.html

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-13608.json

Vendor Advisory

https://hackerone.com/reports/3822248

Exploit Third Party Advisory

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