CVE-2025-11563 — wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes

Description (CNA)

URLs containing percent-encoded slashes (`/` or `\`) can trick wcurl into saving the output file outside of the current directory without the user explicitly asking for it. This flaw only affects the wcurl command line tool.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
curl / curl	affected 8.17.0 through 8.17.0; affected 8.16.0 through 8.16.0; affected 8.15.0 through 8.15.0; affected 8.14.1 through 8.14.1; affected 8.14.0 through 8.14.0

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-11563.json
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-11563.html

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/04/1

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2025/11/msg00504.html