Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-3236

Title: Haxx Curl Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-3236.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Jun 22, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.21%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-3236: cURL and libcurl 7.40.0 through 7.42.1 send the HTTP Basic authentication credentials for a previous connection when reusing a reset (curl_easy_reset) connection handle to send a request to the same host name, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

daniel_stenberg 1

haxx 2

libcurl 1

Reference Links

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150617A.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160660.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75385 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787 https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10131 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-02 http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150617A.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160660.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75385 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787 https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10131 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-02

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-3236 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 22, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.