CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2026-4873 — A vulnerability exists where a connection requiring TLS incorrectly reuses an existing unencrypted connection from the same connection pool
Medium
CVSS 5.9
A vulnerability exists where a connection requiring TLS incorrectly reuses an existing unencrypted connection from the same connection pool. If an initial transfer is made in clear-text (via IMAP, SMTP, or POP3), a subsequent request to that same host bypasses the TLS requirement and instead transmit data unencrypted.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.9 (3.1)
- Published
- 2026-05-13
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295, CWE-319
Affected products
- haxx / curl
Matched remediation archetype
Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation
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Check exposure
- Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
- Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
- Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.
Remediate safely
- Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
- Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
- Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.
Authoritative sources
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