Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting curl package, versions [7.56.0,8.23.0)
Threat Intelligence
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- published18 Oct 2026
- disclosed14 Oct 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 14 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-92391 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade curl to version 8.23.0 or higher.
Overview
curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.
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.