# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-9546"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-03T06:18:14.447Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-15T06:03:33.325Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-9546"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-9546.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9546"
title: "sending old referer"
summary: "A vulnerability in libcurl caused the HTTP `Referer:` header to persist even\nwhen explicitly cleared. While the documentation states that passing NULL to\n`CURLOPT_REFERER` suppresses the header, the option failed to clear the\ninternal state. As a result, the previous referrer string was erroneously\nreused and sent in subsequent requests, potentially leaking sensitive\ninformation to unintended servers."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8.18.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"8.20.1"}],"vendor":"curl","product":"curl","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2cb868242dc2ac9cd52ee64987ef51d5964a56f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"862e8a74a84478d82973471b4f49dc2746c1780e"}],"vendor":"curl","product":"curl","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"8.20.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.19.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.18.0","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"curl","product":"curl","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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