CVE-2026-11586

WS Auto-PONG memory exhaustion

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Original advisory

cve-program · CVE-2026-11586

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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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Affected versions, risk and source history

cve-program · CVE-2026-11586

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curl

Vendor product

Publisher's version information

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{
                    "vendor": "curl",
                    "product": "curl",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "version": "8.16.0",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "versionType": "semver",
                            "lessThan": "8.16.1"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "8.17.0",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "versionType": "semver",
                            "lessThan": "8.20.1"
                        }
                    ],
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
                }

curl

Vendor product

Publisher's version information

Shown as published. These rules are not interpreted as NuGet package version ranges.

{
                    "vendor": "curl",
                    "product": "curl",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "version": "0b091328773c64e23f5c4739da74527093c6a5ab",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "versionType": "git",
                            "lessThan": "849317ff5c5a5e13f50ec3d001e46ddffa77d8a4"
                        }
                    ],
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                    "repo": "https://github.com/curl/curl.git"
                }

curl

Vendor product

Publisher's version information

Shown as published. These rules are not interpreted as NuGet package version ranges.

{
                    "vendor": "curl",
                    "product": "curl",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "version": "8.20.0",
                            "status": "affected"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "8.19.0",
                            "status": "affected"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "8.18.0",
                            "status": "affected"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "8.17.0",
                            "status": "affected"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "8.16.0",
                            "status": "affected"
                        }
                    ],
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
                }

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