CVE-2026-11586 (GCVE-0-2026-11586)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-03 06:13
Modified
2026-07-06 15:16
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Version: 8.20.0   ≤ 8.20.0
Version: 8.19.0   ≤ 8.19.0
Version: 8.18.0   ≤ 8.18.0
Version: 8.17.0   ≤ 8.17.0
Version: 8.16.0   ≤ 8.16.0
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