CVE-2025-15224 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00033.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/07/7
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.html
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.json
https://hackerone.com/reports/3480925

History

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-287
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}`

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/07/7

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		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.
Title		libssh key passphrase bypass without agent set
References		https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.html https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.json https://hackerone.com/reports/3480925

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: curl

Published: 2026-01-08T10:08:27.516Z

Updated: 2026-01-08T14:39:55.278Z

Reserved: 2025-12-28T22:49:58.556Z

Link: CVE-2025-15224

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-08T11:06:23.372Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-01-08T10:15:47.207

Modified: 2026-01-08T18:08:18.457

Link: CVE-2025-15224

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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