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CVE-2026-3805
curl curl — use after free in SMB connection reuse
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L N N U N N H 7.5 .0095 59.9 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
curl 8.13.0 – —
curl f4831daa9b2a97e8a2921d6b62cc4dfdd0d8646e – —
curl 8.18.0 – —
TIMELINE
Mar 8 Reserved by curl
Mar 11 Published (CNA: curl)
Sep 14 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-3805 (curl). Public exploit reference added.
Description
When doing a second SMB request to the same host again, curl would wrongly use
a data pointer pointing into already freed memory.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| March 8, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by curl |
| March 11, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: curl) |
| September 14, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-3805 (curl). Public exploit reference added. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 3 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| curl | curl | — | 8.13.0 | — |
| curl | curl | — | f4831daa9b2a97e8a2921d6b62cc4dfdd0d8646e | — |
| curl | curl | — | 8.18.0 | — |
About this page
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-3805 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Sunday, October 4, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.