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FKIE_CVE-2025-11563

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-25 08:16 - Updated: 2026-02-25 14:15

Severity ?

Summary

URLs containing percent-encoded slashes (`/` or `\`) can trick wcurl into saving the output file outside of the current directory without the user explicitly asking for it. This flaw only affects the wcurl command line tool.

References

	URL	Tags
	2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9	https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-11563.html
	2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9	https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-11563.json
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/04/1

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "URLs containing percent-encoded slashes (`/` or `\\`) can trick wcurl into\nsaving the output file outside of the current directory without the user\nexplicitly asking for it.\n\nThis flaw only affects the wcurl command line tool."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-11563",
  "lastModified": "2026-02-25T14:15:29.980",
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  "published": "2026-02-25T08:16:18.337",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2025-11563 (GCVE-0-2025-11563)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-25 07:20 – Updated: 2026-02-25 18:53

Title

wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes

Summary

Severity ?

4.6 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-35 Path Traversal

Assigner

curl

References

URL

Tags

	https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-11563.json
	https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-11563.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	curl	curl	Affected: 8.17.0 , ≤ 8.17.0 (semver) Affected: 8.16.0 , ≤ 8.16.0 (semver) Affected: 8.15.0 , ≤ 8.15.0 (semver) Affected: 8.14.1 , ≤ 8.14.1 (semver) Affected: 8.14.0 , ≤ 8.14.0 (semver)

Credits

Stanislav Fort (Aisle Research) Samuel Henrique Sergio Durigan Junior Xi Ruoyao

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Nomenclature

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FKIE_CVE-2025-11563

CVE-2025-11563 (GCVE-0-2025-11563)

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