diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl/CVE-2026-7168.patch b/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl/CVE-2026-7168.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0669be6546
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl/CVE-2026-7168.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,425 @@
+From 0f0bb5efbd1e4f2199eeb98e6c62a7a67242cad2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
+Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 01:22:37 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] setopt: clear proxy auth properties when switching
+
+Verify with test 1588
+
+Closes #21453
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-7168
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/c1cfdf59acbaf9504c4578d4cf56cdd7c8594507]
+
+Backport Changes:
+- The upstream lib/setopt.c hunk reuses Curl_auth_digest_cleanup() from the
+  newer tree. curl-8.7.1 does not expose that helper to setopt.c in the same
+  way, so this backport adds the vauth/vauth.h include before applying the
+  upstream setproxy() cleanup logic.
+- The upstream tree already provides a CURL_DISABLE_DIGEST_AUTH fallback for
+  Curl_auth_digest_cleanup(). curl-8.7.1 does not, so this backport adds the
+  equivalent no-op macro in lib/vauth/vauth.h.
+- curl-8.7.1 uses tests/data/Makefile.inc and tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
+  instead of the upstream tests/data/Makefile.am and
+  tests/libtest/Makefile.am lists.
+- curl-8.7.1 uses the older libtest harness, so first.h,
+  test_lib1588(), libtest_arg4, and CURLcode result handling were adapted to
+  test.h, test(), test_argv[4], and int res.
+- curl-8.7.1 does not define the newer digest test feature in runtests.pl.
+  This backport defines the target harness feature as digest-auth, matching
+  tests/server/disabled.c, and makes test 1588 require digest-auth.
+- The curl-8.7.1 server harness does not handle crlf="headers" correctly on
+  response data sections for this test, so those attributes were removed from
+  the two server response blocks and datacheck. The protocol block keeps
+  crlf="headers" because runtests.pl normalizes protocol verification when any
+  crlf attribute is present.
+
+(cherry picked from commit c1cfdf59acbaf9504c4578d4cf56cdd7c8594507)
+Signed-off-by: Deepak Rathore <deeratho@cisco.com>
+---
+ lib/setopt.c               |  18 ++++-
+ lib/vauth/vauth.h          |   2 +
+ tests/data/Makefile.inc    |   1 +
+ tests/data/test1588        | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ tests/libtest/Makefile.inc |   5 +-
+ tests/libtest/lib1588.c    | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ tests/runtests.pl          |   2 +
+ 7 files changed, 283 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+ create mode 100644 tests/data/test1588
+ create mode 100644 tests/libtest/lib1588.c
+
+diff --git a/lib/setopt.c b/lib/setopt.c
+index 8a5a5d7..7eaf309 100644
+--- a/lib/setopt.c
++++ b/lib/setopt.c
+@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
+ #include "altsvc.h"
+ #include "hsts.h"
+ #include "tftp.h"
++#include "vauth/vauth.h"
+ #include "strdup.h"
+ /* The last 3 #include files should be in this order */
+ #include "curl_printf.h"
+@@ -76,6 +77,20 @@ CURLcode Curl_setstropt(char **charp, const char *s)
+   return CURLE_OK;
+ }
+ 
++#ifndef CURL_DISABLE_PROXY
++static CURLcode setproxy(struct Curl_easy *data, const char *proxy)
++{
++  if((data->set.str[STRING_PROXY] && proxy) &&
++     /* there was one set, is this a new one? */
++     !strcmp(data->set.str[STRING_PROXY], proxy))
++    return CURLE_OK; /* same one as before */
++
++  Curl_auth_digest_cleanup(&data->state.proxydigest);
++  memset(&data->state.authproxy, 0, sizeof(data->state.authproxy));
++  return Curl_setstropt(&data->set.str[STRING_PROXY], proxy);
++}
++#endif
++
+ CURLcode Curl_setblobopt(struct curl_blob **blobp,
+                          const struct curl_blob *blob)
+ {
+@@ -1139,8 +1154,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_vsetopt(struct Curl_easy *data, CURLoption option, va_list param)
+      * Setting it to NULL, means no proxy but allows the environment variables
+      * to decide for us (if CURLOPT_SOCKS_PROXY setting it to NULL).
+      */
+-    result = Curl_setstropt(&data->set.str[STRING_PROXY],
+-                            va_arg(param, char *));
++    result = setproxy(data, va_arg(param, char *));
+     break;
+ 
+   case CURLOPT_PRE_PROXY:
+diff --git a/lib/vauth/vauth.h b/lib/vauth/vauth.h
+index 9da0540..bf5c7a3 100644
+--- a/lib/vauth/vauth.h
++++ b/lib/vauth/vauth.h
+@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ CURLcode Curl_auth_create_digest_http_message(struct Curl_easy *data,
+ 
+ /* This is used to clean up the digest specific data */
+ void Curl_auth_digest_cleanup(struct digestdata *digest);
++#else
++#define Curl_auth_digest_cleanup(x)
+ #endif /* !CURL_DISABLE_DIGEST_AUTH */
+ 
+ #ifdef USE_GSASL
+diff --git a/tests/data/Makefile.inc b/tests/data/Makefile.inc
+index f673f86..461eb37 100644
+--- a/tests/data/Makefile.inc
++++ b/tests/data/Makefile.inc
+@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ test1540 test1541 test1542 test1543 test1544 test1545 \
+ test1550 test1551 test1552 test1553 test1554 test1555 test1556 test1557 \
+ test1558 test1559 test1560 test1561 test1562 test1563 test1564 test1565 \
+ test1566 test1567 test1568 test1569 test1570 \
++test1588 \
+ \
+ test1590 test1591 test1592 test1593 test1594 test1595 test1596 test1597 \
+ test1598 \
+diff --git a/tests/data/test1588 b/tests/data/test1588
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..8a3bf81
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/tests/data/test1588
+@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
++<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
++<testcase>
++<info>
++<keywords>
++HTTP
++HTTP GET
++HTTP proxy
++HTTP proxy Digest auth
++multi
++</keywords>
++</info>
++
++# Server-side
++<reply>
++
++# this is returned first since we get no proxy-auth
++<data>
++HTTP/1.1 407 Authorization Required to proxy me my dear
++Proxy-Authenticate: Digest realm="weirdorealm", nonce="12345"
++Content-Length: 33
++
++And you should ignore this data.
++</data>
++
++# then this is returned when we get proxy-auth
++<data1000>
++HTTP/1.1 200 OK
++Content-Length: 21
++Server: no
++
++Nice proxy auth sir!
++</data1000>
++
++<datacheck>
++HTTP/1.1 407 Authorization Required to proxy me my dear
++Proxy-Authenticate: Digest realm="weirdorealm", nonce="12345"
++Content-Length: 33
++
++HTTP/1.1 200 OK
++Content-Length: 21
++Server: no
++
++Nice proxy auth sir!
++HTTP/1.1 407 Authorization Required to proxy me my dear
++Proxy-Authenticate: Digest realm="weirdorealm", nonce="12345"
++Content-Length: 33
++
++HTTP/1.1 200 OK
++Content-Length: 21
++Server: no
++
++Nice proxy auth sir!
++</datacheck>
++</reply>
++
++# Client-side
++<client>
++<server>
++http
++</server>
++# tool is what to use instead of 'curl'
++<tool>
++lib%TESTNUMBER
++</tool>
++<features>
++!SSPI
++crypto
++proxy
++digest-auth
++</features>
++<name>
++HTTP proxy auth Digest, then change proxy and do it again
++</name>
++<command>
++http://test.remote.example.com/path/%TESTNUMBER %HOSTIP %HTTPPORT silly:person custom.set.host.name
++</command>
++</client>
++
++# Verify data after the test has been "shot"
++<verify>
++<protocol crlf="headers">
++GET http://test.remote.example.com/path/1588 HTTP/1.1
++Host: test.remote.example.com
++Accept: */*
++Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
++
++GET http://test.remote.example.com/path/1588 HTTP/1.1
++Host: test.remote.example.com
++Proxy-Authorization: Digest username="silly", realm="weirdorealm", nonce="12345", uri="/path/1588", response="d0b2f000c7e3fca24452b5810713404a"
++Accept: */*
++Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
++
++GET http://test.remote.example.com/path/1588 HTTP/1.1
++Host: test.remote.example.com
++Accept: */*
++Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
++
++GET http://test.remote.example.com/path/1588 HTTP/1.1
++Host: test.remote.example.com
++Proxy-Authorization: Digest username="silly", realm="weirdorealm", nonce="12345", uri="/path/1588", response="d0b2f000c7e3fca24452b5810713404a"
++Accept: */*
++Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
++
++</protocol>
++</verify>
++</testcase>
+diff --git a/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc b/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
+index 9d3356a..4c42d34 100644
+--- a/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
++++ b/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
+@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ noinst_PROGRAMS = chkhostname libauthretry libntlmconnect libprereq      \
+  lib1540 lib1541 lib1542 lib1543         lib1545 \
+  lib1550 lib1551 lib1552 lib1553 lib1554 lib1555 lib1556 lib1557 \
+  lib1558 lib1559 lib1560 lib1564 lib1565 lib1567 lib1568 lib1569 \
+- lib1591 lib1592 lib1593 lib1594 lib1596 lib1597 lib1598 \
++ lib1588 lib1591 lib1592 lib1593 lib1594 lib1596 lib1597 lib1598 \
+  \
+  lib1662 \
+  \
+@@ -687,6 +687,9 @@ lib2502_LDADD = $(TESTUTIL_LIBS)
+ lib2506_SOURCES = lib2506.c $(SUPPORTFILES) $(TESTUTIL) $(WARNLESS)
+ lib2506_LDADD = $(TESTUTIL_LIBS)
+ 
++lib1588_SOURCES = lib1588.c $(SUPPORTFILES) $(TESTUTIL) $(WARNLESS)
++lib1588_LDADD = $(TESTUTIL_LIBS)
++
+ lib3010_SOURCES = lib3010.c $(SUPPORTFILES) $(TESTUTIL) $(WARNLESS)
+ lib3010_LDADD = $(TESTUTIL_LIBS)
+ 
+diff --git a/tests/libtest/lib1588.c b/tests/libtest/lib1588.c
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..00c6b35
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/tests/libtest/lib1588.c
+@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
++/***************************************************************************
++ *                                  _   _ ____  _
++ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
++ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
++ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
++ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
++ *
++ * Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
++ *
++ * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
++ * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
++ * are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html.
++ *
++ * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
++ * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
++ * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
++ *
++ * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
++ * KIND, either express or implied.
++ *
++ * SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
++ *
++ ***************************************************************************/
++/*
++ * argv1 = URL
++ * argv2 = proxy host
++ * argv3 = proxy port
++ * argv4 = proxyuser:password
++ */
++
++#include "test.h"
++#include "testutil.h"
++
++static CURLcode init1588(CURL *curl, const char *url,
++                         const char *userpwd, const char *proxy)
++{
++  int res = CURLE_OK;
++
++  res_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
++  if(res)
++    goto init_failed;
++
++  res_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, proxy);
++  if(res)
++    goto init_failed;
++
++  res_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, userpwd);
++  if(res)
++    goto init_failed;
++
++  res_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
++  if(res)
++    goto init_failed;
++
++  res_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
++  if(res)
++    goto init_failed;
++#if 0
++  res_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1L);
++  if(res)
++    goto init_failed;
++#endif
++
++  res_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1L);
++  if(res)
++    goto init_failed;
++
++  return CURLE_OK; /* success */
++
++init_failed:
++  return (CURLcode)res; /* failure */
++}
++
++static CURLcode run1588(CURL *curl, const char *url, const char *userpwd,
++                        const char *proxy)
++{
++  CURLcode res = CURLE_OK;
++
++  res = init1588(curl, url, userpwd, proxy);
++  if(res)
++    return res;
++
++  return curl_easy_perform(curl);
++}
++
++int test(char *URL)
++{
++  int res = CURLE_OK;
++  CURL *curl = NULL;
++  const char *proxyuserpws;
++  struct curl_slist *host = NULL;
++  struct curl_slist *host2 = NULL;
++  char proxy1_resolve[128];
++  char proxy2_resolve[128];
++  char proxy1_connect[128];
++  char proxy2_connect[128];
++
++  if(test_argc < 5)
++    return TEST_ERR_MAJOR_BAD;
++  proxyuserpws = test_argv[4];
++
++  curl_msnprintf(proxy1_resolve, sizeof(proxy1_resolve),
++                 "firstproxy:%s:%s", libtest_arg3, libtest_arg2);
++  curl_msnprintf(proxy2_resolve, sizeof(proxy2_resolve),
++                 "secondproxy:%s:%s", libtest_arg3, libtest_arg2);
++
++  /* we connect to the fake host name but the right port number */
++  curl_msnprintf(proxy1_connect, sizeof(proxy1_connect),
++                 "firstproxy:%s", libtest_arg3);
++  curl_msnprintf(proxy2_connect, sizeof(proxy2_connect),
++                 "secondproxy:%s", libtest_arg3);
++
++  res_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
++  if(res)
++    return res;
++
++  curl = curl_easy_init();
++  if(!curl) {
++    curl_mfprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_init() failed\n");
++    curl_global_cleanup();
++    return TEST_ERR_MAJOR_BAD;
++  }
++
++  host = curl_slist_append(NULL, proxy1_resolve);
++  if(!host)
++    goto test_cleanup;
++  host2 = curl_slist_append(host, proxy2_resolve);
++  if(!host2)
++    goto test_cleanup;
++  host = host2;
++
++  start_test_timing();
++
++  easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RESOLVE, host);
++
++  res = run1588(curl, URL, proxyuserpws, proxy1_connect);
++  if(res)
++    goto test_cleanup;
++
++  curl_mfprintf(stderr, "lib1588: now we do the request again\n");
++
++  res = run1588(curl, URL, proxyuserpws, proxy2_connect);
++
++test_cleanup:
++
++  /* proper cleanup sequence - type PB */
++
++  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
++  curl_global_cleanup();
++  curl_slist_free_all(host);
++  return res;
++}
+diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
+index ddfab20..b40df55 100755
+--- a/tests/runtests.pl
++++ b/tests/runtests.pl
+@@ -637,6 +637,8 @@ sub checksystemfeatures {
+             $feature{"Kerberos"} = $feat =~ /Kerberos/i;
+             # SPNEGO enabled
+             $feature{"SPNEGO"} = $feat =~ /SPNEGO/i;
++            # Digest auth enabled unless disabled by build
++            $feature{"digest-auth"} = 1;
+             # CharConv enabled
+             $feature{"CharConv"} = $feat =~ /CharConv/i;
+             # TLS-SRP enabled
+--
+2.35.6
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_8.7.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_8.7.1.bb
index 882ab67aae..6b7f6f6f51 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_8.7.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_8.7.1.bb
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ SRC_URI = " \
     file://CVE-2026-5545.patch \
     file://CVE-2026-6253.patch \
     file://CVE-2026-6429.patch \
+    file://CVE-2026-7168.patch \
 "
 
 SRC_URI:append:class-nativesdk = " \
