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CVE-2026-11586: WS Auto-PONG memory exhaustion

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-07-03 · updated 2026-09-15
• Weakness: CWE-770

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.

Affected products

• curl: from 8.16.0 before 8.21.0 — fixed in 8.21.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: curl 8.21.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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