ALPINE-CVE-2026-11586

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CVE-2026-11586
Published: 03 Jul 2026, 07:16
Last modified:08 Jul 2026, 09:30

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Jul 2026, 07:16
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
08 Jul 2026, 09:30
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•curl

    ≥ 8.16.0, < 8.21.0-r0

References (1)