CVE-2026-13608

A flaw in the libcurl SASL negotiation for LDAP authentication allows an incomplete handshake sequence to be misinterpreted as a successful cryptographic verification. An attacker executing a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack can inject a premature or shortcut response that bypasses complete peer validation.

Credits

Eunsoo Kim (Autonomous Code Security team at Microsoft)
Eunsoo Kim

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