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CVE-2026-8458 is a low-severity logic flaw in libcurl’s connection reuse handling for HTTP Negotiate-authenticated requests. libcurl maintains a pool of live connections and reuses them when reuse criteria match to reduce connection setup overhead. Due to a logical error, libcurl could incorrectly consider a pooled connection reusable for a new request to the same server even when the new request specified a different Negotiate service name. The affected service name is configured through CURLOPT_SERVICE_NAME or CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME. As a result, a request could be sent over an existing connection that had already been authenticated for a different service. The issue affects libcurl versions 7.43.0 through 8.20.0 inclusive; the curl command-line tool is not affected. The flaw is mapped by the vendor to CWE-488.
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A curl/libcurl vulnerability caused by incorrect connection reuse across different services.
A low-severity curl/libcurl vulnerability involving improper connection reuse across different services.
A low-severity libcurl vulnerability where a logical error can cause reuse of an existing Negotiate-authenticated connection for a different service on the same host, port, and credentials, potentially exposing data to the wrong session.
A curl vulnerability involving incorrect connection reuse across different services.
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