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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Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title WS Auto-PONG memory exhaustion
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: curl

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-03T06:13:04.448Z

Reserved: 2026-06-08T12:17:42.037Z

Link: CVE-2026-11586

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-07-03T07:30:09Z

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