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CVE-2025-13034

This check was skipped in a certain condition that would then make curl allow the connection without performing the proper check, thus not noticing a possible impostor.

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 0.24%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

When using `CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY` option with libcurl or `--pinnedpubkey` with the curl tool,curl should check the public key of the server certificate to verify the peer. This check was skipped in a certain condition that would then make curl allow the connection without performing the proper check, thus not noticing a possible impostor. To skip this check, the connection had to be done with QUIC with ngtcp2 built to use GnuTLS and the user had to explicitly disable the standard certificate verification.

CVSS 3.1
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.24% probability · 15th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-295
Affected
haxx/curl
Source
2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.