GHSA-f7vp-7xgx-4w4r: Guzzle: Noncanonical cookie domain keeps subdomain scope
Impact
SetCookie::matchesDomain() gives every subdomain of a cookie Domain that cookie unless it recognizes the Domain as an IP literal or a numeric host, and it decides that from the domain's own text, so two spellings a transport reads as an address keep subdomain scope. On 7.15, hexadecimal and mixed-base forms such as 0x7f000001 and 0177.0.0.0x1 go unrecognized while libcurl 8.21.0 reads both as 127.0.0.1, so closing them completes the rule GHSA-g446-98w2-8p5w (CVE-2026-59883) set out to establish, which cited the WHATWG IPv4 parser and so already admitted a 0x part. A percent-escaped Domain keeps that scope on both branches for a different reason: percent-decoding sits above numeric parsing, so 192.168.0.%31 and 127.0.0.1%2e are registered names in the URI grammar rather than address literals, and no numeric rule in any base classifies them, while libcurl decodes the host before it resolves and reads them as 192.168.0.1 and 127.0.0.1. The escape must fall in the rightmost label on 8.0.0, which already catches a decimal, octal or 0x part there, but not on 7.15, where %31%32%37.0.0.0x1 also reads as 127.0.0.1; 8.0.0 is affected in the percent spelling alone.
Both directions of the defect are reproduced over a real socket. A cookie stored for Domain=0x7f000001 is placed in the Cookie header of a request to evil.0x7f000001, disclosing a session identifier or token to a host that is not that address, and a response from evil.0x7f000001 setting Domain=0x7f000001 is accepted into the jar and replayed to the address, so a server answering for the look-alike name can fix a session or set application state.
Exploitation requires the application to enable cookie support, address an origin by one of these spellings, and contact a host whose name ends in it. No public DNS delegation provides such a name, so the exposure is to private, split-horizon and container zones. Applications that do not use Guzzle's cookies, that keep a separate jar for each host or trust boundary
Details
Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f7vp-7xgx-4w4r
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-692450.14% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 4% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-69245 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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