CVE-2025-15224

A flaw was found in libcurl. When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and asked to do public key authentication, curl would wrongly still ask and authenticate using a locally running SSH agent.

This vulnerability is rated Low for Red Hat products. The flaw in libcurl, when built with the libssh backend, allows it to wrongly attempt authentication via a locally running SSH agent during public key authentication for SCP or SFTP transfers. However, successful authentication still requires the SSH agent to possess the correct passphrase.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.