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.
History

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First Time appeared Curl
Curl curl
Vendors & Products Curl
Curl curl

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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'}


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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

cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

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

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

Link: CVE-2025-15224

cve-icon Redhat

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