CVE-2026-11586

WS Auto-PONG memory exhaustion

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Jul 3, 2026
Updated
Sep 15, 2026
Reserved
Jun 8, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
curlcurl
  • 8.16.0 to before 8.16.1Affected
  • 8.17.0 to before 8.20.1Affected
curlcurl
  • 0b091328773c64e23f5c4739da74527093c6a5ab to before 849317ff5c5a5e13f50ec3d001e46ddffa77d8a4Affected
curlcurl
  • 8.20.0Affected
  • 8.19.0Affected
  • 8.18.0Affected
  • 8.17.0Affected
  • 8.16.0Affected

References

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