CVE-2025-11563 (GCVE-0-2025-11563)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-25 07:20 – Updated: 2026-02-25 18:53
VLAI
Title
wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes
Summary
URLs containing percent-encoded slashes (`/` or `\`) can trick wcurl into saving the output file outside of the current directory without the user explicitly asking for it. This flaw only affects the wcurl command line tool.
Severity
4.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Affected: 8.17.0 , ≤ 8.17.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.16.0 , ≤ 8.16.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.15.0 , ≤ 8.15.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.14.1 , ≤ 8.14.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.14.0 , ≤ 8.14.0 (semver)
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Credits
Stanislav Fort (Aisle Research) Samuel Henrique Sergio Durigan Junior Xi Ruoyao
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