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CVE-2026-92389: TFTP direction confusion

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-20 · updated 2026-10-30
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

libcurl's TFTP state machine fails to validate state transitions against the requested transfer direction, accepting opening server responses for both reads and writes interchangeably. A malicious TFTP server can respond to a download request in a way that forces the client into transmit mode, prompting libcurl to consume and transmit data from the handle's persistent `CURLOPT_READDATA` pointer - including data remaining from unrelated prior operations, such as an HTTP POST request executed on a reused handle.

Affected products

• curl: from 8.22.0 through 8.22.0; from 8.21.0 through 8.21.0; from 8.20.0 through 8.20.0; from 8.19.0 through 8.19.0; from 8.18.0 through 8.18.0; from 8.17.0 through 8.17.0

References

• https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-92389.html
• https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-92389.json
• https://hackerone.com/reports/4022568
• https://hackerone.com/reports/4022568

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