CVE-2025-15079: libssh global known_hosts override
Vendor fix available · Affected: curl · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 46% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products3
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- curl · curlfrom 7.58.0 before 8.14.2; from 8.15.0 before 8.16.1; from 8.17.0 before 8.18.0
- curl · curlVersions not stated
- curl · curl8.17.0; 8.16.0; 8.15.0; 8.14.1; 8.14.0; 8.13.0 and 64 more
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- curl
- Published
- January 2026
- Bounty reports
- 1 disclosed on HackerOne
Disclosed bug bounty reports about CVE-2025-15079
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- CVE-2025-15079: libssh global knownhost overridecurl · 2026 · low severityValid
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