CVE-2025-15079
MEDIUM
5.3
Our Analysis: General-Purpose
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Published Date
January 8, 2026
Last Modified
January 20, 2026
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the
known_hosts file, libcurl could still mistakenly accept connecting to hosts
*not present* in the specified file if they were added as recognized in the
libssh *global* known_hosts file.