🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-3805

HIGH 7.5

use after free in SMB connection reuse

CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

When doing a second SMB request to the same host again, curl would wrongly use a data pointer pointing into already freed memory.

Vendor curl
Product curl
Published Mar 11, 2026
Last Updated Mar 11, 2026
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Affected Versions

curl / curl
8.18.0 ≤ 8.18.0 8.17.0 ≤ 8.17.0 8.16.0 ≤ 8.16.0 8.15.0 ≤ 8.15.0 8.14.1 ≤ 8.14.1 8.14.0 ≤ 8.14.0 8.13.0 ≤ 8.13.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
curl.se: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-3805.json curl.se: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-3805.html hackerone.com: https://hackerone.com/reports/3591944 openwall.com: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/11/4

Credits

Daniel Wade Stefan Eissing