CVE-2026-3805 (GCVE-0-2026-3805)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-11 10:09 – Updated: 2026-09-15 06:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
use after free in SMB connection reuse
Summary
When doing a second SMB request to the same host again, curl would wrongly use
a data pointer pointing into already freed memory.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-03-11 15:45 UTC
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| curl | curl |
Affected:
8.13.0 , < 8.14.2
(semver)
Affected: 8.15.0 , < 8.16.1 (semver) Affected: 8.17.0 , < 8.19.0 (semver) |
guessed | |
| curl | curl |
Affected:
f4831daa9b2a97e8a2921d6b62cc4dfdd0d8646e , < e090be9f73a7a71459ef678c7cc4b1f75e3ea883
(git)
|
guessed | |
| curl | curl |
Affected:
8.18.0
Affected: 8.17.0 Affected: 8.16.0 Affected: 8.15.0 Affected: 8.14.1 Affected: 8.14.0 Affected: 8.13.0 |
guessed |
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