CVE-2026-11586 (GCVE-0-2026-11586)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-03 06:13 – Updated: 2026-07-03 06:13
VLAI
Title
WS Auto-PONG memory exhaustion
Summary
By default, curl automatically responds to WebSocket PING frames. Because curl lacks an upper bound on memory allocation for unacknowledged frames, a malicious server can exhaust all available memory by flooding curl with rapid, sequential PING messages.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Affected: 8.20.0 , ≤ 8.20.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.19.0 , ≤ 8.19.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.18.0 , ≤ 8.18.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.17.0 , ≤ 8.17.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.16.0 , ≤ 8.16.0 (semver)
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Credits
evergarden1123 on hackerone (AntAISecurityLab) Stefan Eissing
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