Riskcovery

CVE-2026-92387

never-ending loop via server response omission

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Oct 20, 2026
Updated
Oct 29, 2026
Reserved
Sep 16, 2026

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Description

By permanently omitting the final control-response line, a malicious FTP, IMAP, POP3, or SMTP server can exploit libcurl and completely bypass its configured transfer timeout mechanism, indefinitely blocking all concurrent transfers bound to the same multi-handle.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
curlcurl
  • 8.22.0 through 8.22.0Affected
  • 8.21.0 through 8.21.0Affected
  • 8.20.0 through 8.20.0Affected
  • 8.19.0 through 8.19.0Affected
  • 8.18.0 through 8.18.0Affected
  • 8.17.0 through 8.17.0Affected
  • 8.16.0 through 8.16.0Affected
  • 8.15.0 through 8.15.0Affected
  • 8.14.1 through 8.14.1Affected
  • 8.14.0 through 8.14.0Affected
  • 8.13.0 through 8.13.0Affected
  • 8.12.1 through 8.12.1Affected
  • 8.12.0 through 8.12.0Affected
  • 8.11.1 through 8.11.1Affected
  • 8.11.0 through 8.11.0Affected
  • 8.10.1 through 8.10.1Affected
  • 8.10.0 through 8.10.0Affected

References

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