Credential disclosure via stale netrc password reuse
Published Dec 11, 2024 · Updated Nov 3, 2025
Credential disclosure in curl 7.76.0 through 8.11.0 allows remote attackers to read a prior host's password through an HTTP redirect. The netrc parser can report a redirect-target match without replacing a password omitted from that entry, leaving the prior host's password attached. Reachability requires netrc authentication, redirect following, and a target-host entry lacking its password or both login and password.
Summary
What happened
Credential disclosure in curl 7.76.0 through 8.11.0 allows remote attackers to read a prior host's password through an HTTP redirect. The netrc parser can report a redirect-target match without replacing a password omitted from that entry, leaving the prior host's password attached. Reachability requires netrc authentication, redirect following, and a target-host entry lacking its password or both login and password.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-11053
- Published
- Dec 11, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Vendor
- curl
- Product
- curl
- Classifications
- CWE-200, T1212
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 11, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 3, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=6.5.1 <=6.5.1
- Affected versionversion=6.5.2 <=6.5.2
- Affected versionversion=6.5 <=6.5
- Affected versionversion=7.10.1 <=7.10.1
- Affected versionversion=7.10.2 <=7.10.2
- Affected versionversion=7.10.3 <=7.10.3
- Affected versionversion=7.10.4 <=7.10.4
- Affected versionversion=7.10.5 <=7.10.5
- Affected versionversion=7.10.6 <=7.10.6
- Affected versionversion=7.10 <=7.10
- Affected versionversion=7.10.7 <=7.10.7
- Affected versionversion=7.10.8 <=7.10.8
- Affected versionversion=7.11.0 <=7.11.0
- Affected versionversion=7.11.1 <=7.11.1
- Affected versionversion=7.11.2 <=7.11.2
- Affected versionversion=7.1.1 <=7.1.1
- Affected versionversion=7.12.0 <=7.12.0
- Affected versionversion=7.12.1 <=7.12.1
- Affected versionversion=7.12.2 <=7.12.2
- Affected versionversion=7.12.3 <=7.12.3
- Affected versionversion=7.13.0 <=7.13.0
- Affected versionversion=7.13.1 <=7.13.1
- Affected versionversion=7.13.2 <=7.13.2
- Affected versionversion=7.14.0 <=7.14.0
- Affected versionversion=7.14.1 <=7.14.1
- Affected versionversion=7.15.0 <=7.15.0
- Affected versionversion=7.15.1 <=7.15.1
- Affected versionversion=7.15.2 <=7.15.2
- Affected versionversion=7.15.3 <=7.15.3
- Affected versionversion=7.15.4 <=7.15.4
- Affected versionversion=7.15.5 <=7.15.5
- Affected versionversion=7.16.0 <=7.16.0
- Affected versionversion=7.16.1 <=7.16.1
- Affected versionversion=7.16.2 <=7.16.2
- Affected versionversion=7.16.3 <=7.16.3
- Affected versionversion=7.16.4 <=7.16.4
- Affected versionversion=7.17.0 <=7.17.0
- Affected versionversion=7.1 <=7.1
- Affected versionversion=7.17.1 <=7.17.1
- Affected versionversion=7.18.0 <=7.18.0
- Affected versionversion=7.18.1 <=7.18.1
- Affected versionversion=7.18.2 <=7.18.2
- Affected versionversion=7.19.0 <=7.19.0
- Affected versionversion=7.19.1 <=7.19.1
- Affected versionversion=7.19.2 <=7.19.2
- Affected versionversion=7.19.3 <=7.19.3
- Affected versionversion=7.19.4 <=7.19.4
- Affected versionversion=7.19.5 <=7.19.5
- Affected versionversion=7.19.6 <=7.19.6
- Affected versionversion=7.19.7 <=7.19.7
- Affected versionversion=7.20.0 <=7.20.0
- Affected versionversion=7.20.1 <=7.20.1
- Affected versionversion=7.21.0 <=7.21.0
- Affected versionversion=7.21.1 <=7.21.1
- Affected versionversion=7.21.2 <=7.21.2
- Affected versionversion=7.21.3 <=7.21.3
- Affected versionversion=7.21.4 <=7.21.4
- Affected versionversion=7.21.5 <=7.21.5
- Affected versionversion=7.21.6 <=7.21.6
- Affected versionversion=7.2.1 <=7.2.1
- Affected versionversion=7.21.7 <=7.21.7
- Affected versionversion=7.22.0 <=7.22.0
- Affected versionversion=7.23.0 <=7.23.0
- Affected versionversion=7.23.1 <=7.23.1
- Affected versionversion=7.24.0 <=7.24.0
- Affected versionversion=7.25.0 <=7.25.0
- Affected versionversion=7.26.0 <=7.26.0
- Affected versionversion=7.27.0 <=7.27.0
- Affected versionversion=7.2 <=7.2
- Affected versionversion=7.28.0 <=7.28.0
- Affected versionversion=7.28.1 <=7.28.1
- Affected versionversion=7.29.0 <=7.29.0
- Affected versionversion=7.30.0 <=7.30.0
- Affected versionversion=7.31.0 <=7.31.0
- Affected versionversion=7.32.0 <=7.32.0
- Affected versionversion=7.33.0 <=7.33.0
- Affected versionversion=7.34.0 <=7.34.0
- Affected versionversion=7.35.0 <=7.35.0
- Affected versionversion=7.36.0 <=7.36.0
- Affected versionversion=7.37.0 <=7.37.0
- Affected versionversion=7.37.1 <=7.37.1
- Affected versionversion=7.3 <=7.3
- Affected versionversion=7.38.0 <=7.38.0
- Affected versionversion=7.39.0 <=7.39.0
- Affected versionversion=7.40.0 <=7.40.0
- Affected versionversion=7.41.0 <=7.41.0
- Affected versionversion=7.4.1 <=7.4.1
- Affected versionversion=7.42.0 <=7.42.0
- Affected versionversion=7.42.1 <=7.42.1
- Affected versionversion=7.4.2 <=7.4.2
- Affected versionversion=7.43.0 <=7.43.0
- Affected versionversion=7.44.0 <=7.44.0
- Affected versionversion=7.45.0 <=7.45.0
- Affected versionversion=7.46.0 <=7.46.0
- Affected versionversion=7.47.0 <=7.47.0
- Affected versionversion=7.47.1 <=7.47.1
- Affected versionversion=7.4 <=7.4
- Affected versionversion=7.48.0 <=7.48.0
- Affected versionversion=7.49.0 <=7.49.0
- Affected versionversion=7.49.1 <=7.49.1
- Affected versionversion=7.50.0 <=7.50.0
- Affected versionversion=7.50.1 <=7.50.1
- Affected versionversion=7.50.2 <=7.50.2
- Affected versionversion=7.50.3 <=7.50.3
- Affected versionversion=7.51.0 <=7.51.0
- Affected versionversion=7.5.1 <=7.5.1
- Affected versionversion=7.52.0 <=7.52.0
- Affected versionversion=7.52.1 <=7.52.1
- Affected versionversion=7.5.2 <=7.5.2
- Affected versionversion=7.53.0 <=7.53.0
- Affected versionversion=7.53.1 <=7.53.1
- Affected versionversion=7.54.0 <=7.54.0
- Affected versionversion=7.54.1 <=7.54.1
- Affected versionversion=7.55.0 <=7.55.0
- Affected versionversion=7.55.1 <=7.55.1
- Affected versionversion=7.56.0 <=7.56.0
- Affected versionversion=7.56.1 <=7.56.1
- Affected versionversion=7.57.0 <=7.57.0
- Affected versionversion=7.5 <=7.5
- Affected versionversion=7.58.0 <=7.58.0
- Affected versionversion=7.59.0 <=7.59.0
- Affected versionversion=7.60.0 <=7.60.0
- Affected versionversion=7.61.0 <=7.61.0
- Affected versionversion=7.61.1 <=7.61.1
- Affected versionversion=7.6.1 <=7.6.1
- Affected versionversion=7.62.0 <=7.62.0
- Affected versionversion=7.63.0 <=7.63.0
- Affected versionversion=7.64.0 <=7.64.0
- Affected versionversion=7.64.1 <=7.64.1
- Affected versionversion=7.65.0 <=7.65.0
- Affected versionversion=7.65.1 <=7.65.1
- Affected versionversion=7.65.2 <=7.65.2
- Affected versionversion=7.65.3 <=7.65.3
- Affected versionversion=7.66.0 <=7.66.0
- Affected versionversion=7.67.0 <=7.67.0
- Affected versionversion=7.6 <=7.6
- Affected versionversion=7.68.0 <=7.68.0
- Affected versionversion=7.69.0 <=7.69.0
- Affected versionversion=7.69.1 <=7.69.1
- Affected versionversion=7.70.0 <=7.70.0
- Affected versionversion=7.71.0 <=7.71.0
- Affected versionversion=7.71.1 <=7.71.1
- Affected versionversion=7.7.1 <=7.7.1
- Affected versionversion=7.72.0 <=7.72.0
- Affected versionversion=7.7.2 <=7.7.2
- Affected versionversion=7.73.0 <=7.73.0
- Affected versionversion=7.7.3 <=7.7.3
- Affected versionversion=7.74.0 <=7.74.0
- Affected versionversion=7.75.0 <=7.75.0
- Affected versionversion=7.76.0 <=7.76.0
- Affected versionversion=7.76.1 <=7.76.1
- Affected versionversion=7.77.0 <=7.77.0
- Affected versionversion=7.7 <=7.7
- Affected versionversion=7.78.0 <=7.78.0
- Affected versionversion=7.79.0 <=7.79.0
- Affected versionversion=7.79.1 <=7.79.1
- Affected versionversion=7.80.0 <=7.80.0
- Affected versionversion=7.81.0 <=7.81.0
- Affected versionversion=7.8.1 <=7.8.1
- Affected versionversion=7.82.0 <=7.82.0
- Affected versionversion=7.83.0 <=7.83.0
- Affected versionversion=7.83.1 <=7.83.1
- Affected versionversion=7.84.0 <=7.84.0
- Affected versionversion=7.85.0 <=7.85.0
- Affected versionversion=7.86.0 <=7.86.0
- Affected versionversion=7.87.0 <=7.87.0
- Affected versionversion=7.8 <=7.8
- Affected versionversion=7.88.0 <=7.88.0
- Affected versionversion=7.88.1 <=7.88.1
- Affected versionversion=7.9.1 <=7.9.1
- Affected versionversion=7.9.2 <=7.9.2
- Affected versionversion=7.9.3 <=7.9.3
- Affected versionversion=7.9.4 <=7.9.4
- Affected versionversion=7.9.5 <=7.9.5
- Affected versionversion=7.9.6 <=7.9.6
- Affected versionversion=7.9.7 <=7.9.7
- Affected versionversion=7.9 <=7.9
- Affected versionversion=7.9.8 <=7.9.8
- Affected versionversion=8.0.0 <=8.0.0
- Affected versionversion=8.0.1 <=8.0.1
- Affected versionversion=8.10.0 <=8.10.0
- Affected versionversion=8.10.1 <=8.10.1
- Affected versionversion=8.1.0 <=8.1.0
- Affected versionversion=8.11.0 <=8.11.0
- Affected versionversion=8.1.1 <=8.1.1
- Affected versionversion=8.1.2 <=8.1.2
- Affected versionversion=8.2.0 <=8.2.0
- Affected versionversion=8.2.1 <=8.2.1
- Affected versionversion=8.3.0 <=8.3.0
- Affected versionversion=8.4.0 <=8.4.0
- Affected versionversion=8.5.0 <=8.5.0
- Affected versionversion=8.6.0 <=8.6.0
- Affected versionversion=8.7.0 <=8.7.0
- Affected versionversion=8.7.1 <=8.7.1
- Affected versionversion=8.8.0 <=8.8.0
- Affected versionversion=8.9.0 <=8.9.0
- Affected versionversion=8.9.1 <=8.9.1
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