curl: CURLOPT_PROXY_CAINFO_BLOB silently activates native CA store on Apple builds

Hi all, CURLOPTPROXYCAINFOBLOB introduced 7.77.0 never sets proxyssl.customcablob. On USEAPPLESECTRUST / CURLCANATIVE builds this causes curl to silently fall back to the system keychain for proxy TLS verification, nullifying the caller's blob-only trust policy. --- Root cause lib/setopt.c handle...

CVE-2026-7009

When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as OCSP stapling, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it fails to detect OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine...

CVE-2026-7009 OCSP stapling bypass with Apple SecTrust

When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as OCSP stapling, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it fails to detect OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine...

CVE-2026-7009

CVE-2026-7009 affects curl when using OCSP stapling. Providers report that curl, on Apple systems with Apple SecTrust and when built with an OpenSSL backend, fails to detect OCSP problems and treats the stapled response as valid. The Nessus entry notes a specific vulnerable range: curl 8.17.0 bef...

curl: CVE-2026-7009: OCSP stapling bypass with Apple SecTrust

Summary When curl is built with --with-apple-sectrust or -DUSEAPPLESECTRUST=ON and OpenSSL, the --cert-status / CURLOPTSSLVERIFYSTATUS option is silently bypassed when Apple SecTrust handles certificate chain verification instead of OpenSSL. The user explicitly requests OCSP stapling enforcement,...