Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-15224

Title: Public Key Authentication Bypass in curl

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2025-15224.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Jan 08, 2026
Modified Date Jan 20, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 3.1 CVSS v
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.41%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-15224: When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and asked to do public key authentication, curl would wrongly still ask and authenticate using a locally running SSH agent.

Impacted Vendors

D
daniel_stenberg 1
H
haxx 1

Reference Links

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.html https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.json https://hackerone.com/reports/3480925
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Severity LOW
3.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-15224 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.