CVE-2025-0167 | netrc and default credential leak

Exp

When asked to use a `.netrc` file for credentials **and** to follow HTTP redirects, curl could leak the password used for the first host to the followed-to host under certain circumstances. This flaw only manifests itself if the netrc file has a `default` entry that omits both login and password. A rare circumstance.

Published: 2025-02-05 Last update: 2025-07-30 Assigner: 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9 Source: 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-0167 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.33%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2025-0167

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-0167

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-16 0.17% 0.33% +0.16%
2 2025-12-01 0.12% 0.17% +0.05%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.12% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-0167

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.4 3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:H)
Even with access, the exploit needs extra luck, timing, or a fussy environment to actually work.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 1.6 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-0167

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-0167

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2025-0167: 1 source package rows (curl); 244 state rows across 6 repos (3.18-main, 3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, edge-main); fixed 6, open 238. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-0167
debian unimportant CVE-2025-0167 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (curl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-0167
suse medium CVE-2025-0167 severity moderate: SUSE including 348 source package names (0.0.17-1.1:curl-8.6.0-150600.4.21.1, 0.0.17-1.1:libcurl4-8.6.0-150600.4.21.1, …), 952 product×package rows across 321 product lines (Container bci/gcc, Container bci/golang, … (321 product lines)): Fixed 727, Known Affected 221, First Fixed 2, Known Not Affected 2. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0167/
ubuntu low CVE-2025-0167 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (curl), 10 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 6, released 3, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-0167

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-0167

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
haxx curl >= 7.76.0, < 8.12.0 cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp element_software — cpe:2.3:a:netapp:element_software:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp ontap 9 cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility — cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp ontap_tools 9 cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_tools:9:*:*:*:*:vmware_vsphere:*:*
netapp solidfire_\&_hci_management_node — cpe:2.3:a:netapp:solidfire_\&_hci_management_node:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp solidfire_\&_hci_storage_node — cpe:2.3:a:netapp:solidfire_\&_hci_storage_node:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp bootstrap_os — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:bootstrap_os:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h300s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h410c_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h410s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h500s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h610c_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h610c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h610s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h610s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h615c_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h615c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h700s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-0167

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