CVE-2025-15224

low-risk

Published 2026-01-08

When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and asked to do public key authentication, curl would wrongly still ask and authenticate using a locally running SSH agent.

Do I need to act?

0.08% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 3.1/10 Low

NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (1)

Curl

Affected Vendors

Haxx

References (4)

Vendor Advisory https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.html

Vendor Advisory https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.json

Exploit https://hackerone.com/reports/3480925

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/07/7

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low-risk

Severity 11/34 · Low

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal