libcurl 7.71.0 < 8.20.0 Cookie Leak via Stale Host Header

The version of libcurl installed on the remote host is 7.71.0 prior to 8.20.0. It is, therefore, affected by a cookie leak vulnerability: - When using the same connection handle for multiple HTTP requests, if a custom Host: header is removed in a subsequent request, the second request would use...

curl: CVE-2026-6276: stale custom cookie host causes cookie leak

Summary: libcurl keeps a stale data-state.aptr.cookiehost after a request that uses a custom Host: header. On later requests on the same easy handle, when no custom Host: is used, libcurl still reuses that stale value for outgoing cookie selection lib/http.c:2560-2563 and incoming Set-Cookie...