CVE-2025-10966 missing SFTP host verification with wolfSSH

curl's code for managing SSH connections when SFTP was done using the wolfSSH powered backend was flawed and missed host verification mechanisms. This prevents curl from detecting MITM attackers and more...

missing SFTP host verification with wolfSSH

curl's code for managing SSH connections when SFTP was done using the wolfSSH powered backend was flawed and missed host verification mechanisms. This prevents curl from detecting MITM attackers and more...

curl: CVE-2025-10966: missing SFTP host verification with wolfSSH

Summary: When curl is built with the wolfSSH backend, the SSH/SFTP implementation in lib/vssh/wolfssh.c performs no server host key verification and exposes no host identity options in the curl tool. I verified this locally by building curl with wolfSSH binary reports wolfssh/1.4.20, observing th...