Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting libcurl package, versions [7.76.0,8.23.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBCURL-21193755
  • published18 Oct 2026
  • disclosed14 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-92391  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libcurl to version 8.23.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion via the curl_mime_free function. An attacker can cause process termination by supplying deeply nested MIME structures to exhaust stack memory during memory cleanup.

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1