When asking curl to use a `.netrc` file to find credentials and at the same time specifying a URL with a username(without a password), like `https://user@example.com/`, curl could wrongly get and use the password for *another* user set in the `.netrc` file for that host if such a one exists and there is no match for the specified user.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| curl | curl | 8.20.0, 8.19.0, 8.18.0, 8.17.0, 8.16.0, 8.15.0, 8.14.1, 8.14.0, 8.13.0, 8.12.1, 8.12.0, 8.11.1 |
Updated severity to HIGH, added CVSS estimate of 7.5, marked as actively exploited, and added CVE-2026-8926 tag.
Initial creation
