curl's Daniel Stenberg Goes Public Over a Disputed CVE
theanonymousone · hn · 2026-08-31
Daniel Stenberg, maintainer of curl and libcurl, published a blog post detailing a dispute over a CVE filed against curl. He disagrees with how the vulnerability was reported and rated, and walks through the disagreement with the reporter over the disclosure process. The post illustrates the position open-source maintainers find themselves in: CVE assignment and severity ratings are not always under their control.
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