CVE-2026-11586

UNKNOWN 0.0

WS Auto-PONG memory exhaustion

CVSS Score

0.0

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

Vendor	curl
Product	curl
Published	Jul 3, 2026

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Affected Versions

curl / curl

8.20.0 ≤ 8.20.0 8.19.0 ≤ 8.19.0 8.18.0 ≤ 8.18.0 8.17.0 ≤ 8.17.0 8.16.0 ≤ 8.16.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

curl.se: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-11586.json curl.se: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-11586.html hackerone.com: https://hackerone.com/reports/3788931

Credits

evergarden1123 on hackerone (AntAISecurityLab) Stefan Eissing