CVE-2026-11586

high

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.

References

https://hackerone.com/reports/3788931

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-11586.json

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2026-11586.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-03

Updated: 2026-07-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00206