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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-11586 (HIGH 7.5) — 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.

[NVD] CVE-2026-11586 (HIGH 7.5) — 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.

lownvdPublished 2026-07-03

CVE-2026-11586 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2026-07-03T07:16:23.883

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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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11586