CURL-CVE-2026-12064 proto-default skips SSH verification

When a user invokes curl using a schemeless URL combined with --proto-default sftp or scp, a disconnect occurs between the tool layer and libcurl. The tool layer incorrectly infers the URL scheme, which erroneously bypasses the initialization of critical SSH security options like...

curl: Bypassing Strict SSH Server Verification via Connection Pool Reuse in libcurl

Summary There is a logic flaw in how libcurl manages its connection pool for SSH protocols SFTP/SCP. When evaluating an existing connection for reuse, sshconfigmatches in lib/url.c fails to compare server identity verification policies. By ignoring CURLOPTSSHKNOWNHOSTS, CURLOPTSSHHOSTPUBLICKEYMD5...