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CVE-2026-63481: Hurl: Cookies in Cookies section leak when redirecting to a different host

September 2, 2026

The Bug

Hurl <= 8.0.1 lets you define cookies two ways in a .hurl file:

  1. As a raw Cookie: header in the [Header]/headers area
  2. In a dedicated [Cookies] section (parsed into RequestSpec.cookies)

When following a redirect to a different host, Hurl correctly strips security-sensitive data (Authorization, Cookie header, and basic-auth user) to avoid leaking credentials cross-host — mirroring libcurl’s default behavior. But it only stripped the cookie that came in as a header. Cookies declared in the [Cookies] section were carried over to the new host unchanged — a credential-leak bug.

Hurl file that leaks cookies:

GET http://localhost:8000/follow-redirect-basic-auth?change_host=true
[Cookies]
fruit: lemon
HTTP 200

Hurl file that doesn’t leak cookie:

GET http://localhost:8000/follow-redirect-basic-auth?change_host=true
Cookie: fruit=lemon
HTTP 200

Patch

With Hurl <= 8.0.1, user can use Cookie header instead of the dedicated [Cookies] section.

References

  • github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/commit/ed91c894c2cf11704422010554037e3ba70b446e
  • github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/pull/5119
  • github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/security/advisories/GHSA-7w2g-9mf9-324m
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-7w2g-9mf9-324m
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63481

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions up to 8.0.1

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-201: Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data

Source file

cargo/hurl/CVE-2026-63481.yml

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