CVE-2026-92391 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A flaw was found in curl. An attacker could supply deeply nested Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) structures to an application utilizing the libcurl library. During memory cleanup in the curl_mime_free function, excessive recursive calls exhaust available stack memory, leading to an application crash and a Denial of Service (DoS).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-8927-1	curl vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8932-1	curl vulnerabilities

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Solution

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Workaround

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References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92391
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-92391

History

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		A flaw was found in curl. An attacker could supply deeply nested Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) structures to an application utilizing the libcurl library. During memory cleanup in the curl_mime_free function, excessive recursive calls exhaust available stack memory, leading to an application crash and a Denial of Service (DoS).
Title		curl: curl: curl_mime_free stack overflow by recursion
Weaknesses		CWE-674
References		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92391 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-92391
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}` threat_severity `Low`

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2026-10-14T12:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-92391 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-10-17T02:00:07Z

Weaknesses

CWE-674

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