CVE-2026-7009 | OCSP stapling bypass with Apple SecTrust

Exp

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.

Published: 2026-05-13 Last update: 2026-05-14 Assigner: 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9 Source: 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2026-7009 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.01%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2026-7009

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-7009

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 2026-05-13 — 0.01% —

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2026-7009

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
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.
 3.9 1.4 [email protected]
5.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
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.
 3.9 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2026-7009

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2026-7009

GHSA-v355-7mqg-qj9c · Severity: medium — When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as *OCSP...

OS Trackers for CVE-2026-7009

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2026-7009 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-2026-7009
suse medium CVE-2026-7009 severity moderate: SUSE including 7 source package names (curl, curl-zsh-completion, …), 104 product×package rows across 35 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, … (35 product lines)): Known Not Affected 104. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7009/
ubuntu medium CVE-2026-7009 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (curl), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 8, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-7009

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-7009

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
haxx curl >= 8.17.0, < 8.20.0 cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2026-7009

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