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CVE-2026-92389: TFTP direction confusion

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.72% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53.9% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: curl (Alpine:v3.23) 8.23.0-r0; curl (openSUSE:Tumbleweed) 8.23.0-1.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to curl (Alpine:v3.23) 8.23.0-r0; curl (openSUSE:Tumbleweed) 8.23.0-1.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

libcurl's TFTP state machine fails to validate state transitions against the requested transfer direction, accepting opening server responses for both reads and writes interchangeably. A malicious TFTP server can respond to a download request in a way that forces the client into transmit mode, prompting libcurl to consume and transmit data from the handle's persistent `CURLOPT_READDATA` pointer - including data remaining from unrelated prior operations, such as an HTTP POST request executed on a reused handle.

HighCVSS 8.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Oct 20, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
EPSS
0.7% · 53th percentile

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Action score

32

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (curl). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

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    • 8.22.0 and later · up to and including 8.22.0affected · semver
    • 8.21.0 and later · up to and including 8.21.0affected · semver
    • 8.20.0 and later · up to and including 8.20.0affected · semver
    • 8.19.0 and later · up to and including 8.19.0affected · semver
    • 8.18.0 and later · up to and including 8.18.0affected · semver
    • 8.17.0 and later · up to and including 8.17.0affected · semver
    • 8.16.0 and later · up to and including 8.16.0affected · semver
    • 8.15.0 and later · up to and including 8.15.0affected · semver
    • 8.14.1 and later · up to and including 8.14.1affected · semver
    • 8.14.0 and later · up to and including 8.14.0affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Alpine:v3.23curlbefore 8.23.0-r08.23.0-r0
Debian:12curlfrom 0—
openSUSE:Tumbleweedcurlbefore 8.23.0-1.18.23.0-1.1

Same product

curl: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-92386Oct 20, 2026 · server-set cookie aborts cookie jar load
    32Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-92387Oct 20, 2026 · never-ending loop via server response omission
    32Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-92390Oct 20, 2026 · -J no-clobber guarantee bypassed with 103 early hints
    30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
alpine:curl8.23.0-r0 · Alpine:v3.23Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:curl8.23.0-1.1 · openSUSE:TumbleweedPackage registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. Published
  2. Fix recordedsame day
  3. TodayNov 2, 2026+13 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-942650 days apartAuthorization: Negotiate sent to foreign origin
    36Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-200 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

json
{  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }}

Fixed

json
{  "permissions": ["activeTab"],  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Change log

  1. CVSS— → 8.1
  2. Severity— → high
  3. SSVC exploitation— → poc
  4. Fix✗ → ✓
  5. Exploit maturity— → none

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References

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