# CVE-2025-14017: broken TLS options for threaded LDAPS

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.14.2, 8.16.1, 8.18.0
- Published: 2026-01-08 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- curl: from 7.17.0, fixed in 8.14.2; from 8.15.0, fixed in 8.16.1; from 8.17.0, fixed in 8.18.0
- curl: version range not reported
- curl: 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, 8.11.0, 8.10.1, 8.10.0, 8.9.1, 8.9.0, 8.8.0, 8.7.1, 8.7.0, 8.6.0, 8.5.0, 8.4.0, 8.3.0, 8.2.1, 8.2.0, 8.1.2, 8.1.1, 8.1.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.0, 7.88.1, 7.88.0, and 113 more

## Description

When doing multi-threaded LDAPS transfers (LDAP over TLS) with libcurl, changing TLS options in one thread would inadvertently change them globally and therefore possibly also affect other concurrently setup transfers. Disabling certificate verification for a specific transfer could unintentionally disable the feature for other threads as well.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on curl, upgrade to a fixed version (8.14.2, 8.16.1, 8.18.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14017.json
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14017.html

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