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CVE-2026-11352

QUIC zero-length UDP datagrams busy-loop

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 8.20.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

An issue in curl’s QUIC UDP receive function allows a malicious HTTP/3 server to trigger a remote denial of service against a curl or libcurl client. Because the helper function discards zero-length UDP datagrams before counting them toward the per-call packet budget, a connected QUIC peer can continuously stream empty datagrams to indefinitely stall the client.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • curl curl

    From 8.18.0 · fixed in 8.20.1

  • curl curl

    Version range not reported

  • curl curl

    8.20.0, 8.19.0, 8.18.0

References 3

curl.se

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