# CVE-2025-9086: Out of bounds read for cookie path

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.14.2, 8.16.0
- Published: 2025-09-12 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- curl: from 8.13.0, fixed in 8.14.2; from 8.15.0, fixed in 8.16.0
- curl: version range not reported
- curl: 8.15.0, 8.14.1, 8.14.0, 8.13.0

## Description

1. A cookie is set using the `secure` keyword for `https://target` 2. curl is redirected to or otherwise made to speak with `http://target` (same hostname, but using clear text HTTP) using the same cookie set 3. The same cookie name is set - but with only a slash as path (`path="/"`). Since this site is not secure, the cookie *should* be ignored. 4. A bug in the path comparison logic makes curl read outside a heap buffer boundary The bug either causes a crash or it potentially makes the comparison come to the wrong conclusion and lets the clear-text site override the contents of the secure cookie, contrary to expectations and depending on the memory contents immediately following the single-byte allocation that holds the path. The presumed and correct behavior would be to plainly ignore the second set of the cookie since it was already set as secure on a secure host so overriding it on an insecure host should not be okay.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on curl, upgrade to a fixed version (8.14.2, 8.16.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-9086.json
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-9086.html
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3294999

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