{"id":86971,"date":"2026-04-23T04:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"cve-2025-9086-cookie-security-override-leading-to-potential-system-compromise-or-data-leakage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-9086-cookie-security-override-leading-to-potential-system-compromise-or-data-leakage\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-9086: Cookie Security Override Leading to Potential System Compromise or Data Leakage<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability CVE-2025-9086 is a critical flaw that affects the proper functioning of secure cookies in web transactions. It allows an attacker to override the content of a secure cookie when interacting with an insecure host, leading to potential system compromise or data leakage. This contravenes the expected behavior, where the second set of the cookie should be ignored if it has already been established as secure on a secure host.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-9086<br \/>\nSeverity: High (CVSS: 7.5)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: System compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2488150831\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>cURL | Versions prior to 7.64.1<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exploit takes advantage of a bug in the path comparison logic, which causes curl to read outside a heap buffer boundary. This occurs when a secure cookie is set, and curl is redirected to a clear-text HTTP site using the same cookie. The same cookie name is then set with a slash as the path. As the site is insecure, the cookie should be ignored. However, due to the bug, the clear-text site can override the secure cookie, potentially leading to system compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1372632702\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/login HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\nCookie: SecureCookie=value; path=\/; secure\nRedirect to:\nhttp:\/\/target.example.com\nCookie: SecureCookie=new_value; path=\/<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, the initial request sets a secure cookie. However, when redirected to the insecure host, the same cookie name is set with a different value. Due to the bug in path comparison logic, curl allows the insecure host to override the secure cookie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The vulnerability CVE-2025-9086 is a critical flaw that affects the proper functioning of secure cookies in web transactions. It allows an attacker to override the content of a secure cookie when interacting with an insecure host, leading to potential system compromise or data leakage. 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