# CVE-2026-7009: OCSP stapling bypass with Apple SecTrust

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-13 · Updated: 2026-05-13

## Affected

- curl: 8.19.0 only; 8.18.0 only; 8.17.0 only

## Description

When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as *OCSP stapling*, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it fails to detect OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on curl, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-7009.json
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-7009.html
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3694390

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