CVE-2025-5025

Publication date 28 May 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

libcurl supports *pinning* of the server certificate public key for HTTPS transfers. Due to an omission, this check is not performed when connecting with QUIC for HTTP/3, when the TLS backend is wolfSSL. Documentation says the option works with wolfSSL, failing to specify that it does not for QUIC and HTTP/3. Since pinning makes the transfer succeed if the pin is fine, users could unwittingly connect to an impostor server without noticing.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
curl	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in 8.5.0 Ubuntu packages are not built with wolfSSL

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
curl	Upstream: e1f6593

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.8 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.8 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N