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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-5545"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-13T08:27:26.065Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-15T06:02:59.285Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-5545"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-5545.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5545"
title: "wrong reuse of HTTP Negotiate connection"
summary: "libcurl might in some circumstances reuse the wrong connection when asked to\ndo an authenticated HTTP(S) request after a Negotiate-authenticated one, when\nboth use the same host.\n\nlibcurl features a pool of recent connections so that subsequent requests can\nreuse an existing connection to avoid overhead.\n\nWhen reusing a connection a range of criteria must be met. Due to a logical\nerror in the code, a request that was issued by an application could\nwrongfully reuse an existing connection to the same server that was\nauthenticated using different credentials.\n\nAn application that first uses Negotiate authentication to a server with\n`user1:password1` and then does another operation to the same server asking\nfor any authentication method but for `user2:password2` (while the previous\nconnection is still alive) - the second request gets confused and wrongly\nreuses the same connection and sends the new request over that connection\nthinking it uses a mix of user1's and user2's credentials when it is in fact\nstill using the connection authenticated for user1..."
affected: 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