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Publicly disclosed HackerOne reports, with the platform's own outcome and severity.

Program:curl
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Weakness:Denial of Service
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Access needed
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Disclosed bug bounty reports
ReportStatusWeaknessSeverityDisclosedBountyVotes
CVE-2025-5399: WebSocket endless loopAnalysed#3168039ValidDenial of ServiceLow2025-06-04–58
Memory Leak in libcurl via Location Header Handling (CWE-770)#3158093SpamDenial of ServiceHigh2025-05-22–55
Security check up#3269761N/ADenial of ServiceLow2025-07-24–44
HTTP/3 paused transfer buffers incoming data without bound up to ~1 GiB#3734947N/ADenial of Service–2026-05-19–39
WebSocket Fragmentation DoS on Curl Client#3303765N/ADenial of ServiceHigh2025-08-19–32
OpenSSL backend: X509 peer certificate not freed in ossl_get_channel_binding causes per-request memory leak (DoS risk for long-lived clients)#3373640InformativeDenial of ServiceLow2025-10-08–30
Potential Resource Leak in tool_parsecfg.c at line 279 during fileerror#3710209N/ADenial of ServiceLow2026-05-05–21
Unbounded memory consumption via compressed HTTP responses (gzip/brotli/zstd)#3471553InformativeDenial of ServiceMedium2025-12-21–21
Disk Space Exhaustion leading to a Denial of Service (DoS)#3250490SpamDenial of ServiceMedium2025-07-14–21
HTTP/2 PUSH_PROMISE DoS#2402853InformativeDenial of ServiceMedium2024-03-27–20
Unbounded GZIP Decompression Leading to Event-Loop Starvation#3632427N/ADenial of ServiceMedium2026-03-31–17
CVE-2023-23916: HTTP multi-header compression denial of service#1826048ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2023-02-20–16
HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood Vulnerability#3125820N/ADenial of ServiceHigh2025-06-28–14
Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in dedotdotify() URL path normalization#3463608N/ADenial of ServiceHigh2025-12-13–13
Memory leak in Curl_auth_create_ntlm_type3_message#3393539InformativeDenial of ServiceLow2025-10-28–13
libssh SFTP initialization ignores CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, hangs indefinitely#3735080N/ADenial of Service–2026-05-18–12
CVE-2024-2398: HTTP/2 push headers memory-leak#2402845ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2024-03-27–12
MQTT: Missing upper bound on incoming Remaining Length allows server-controlled long wait#3488278N/ADenial of ServiceLow2026-01-06–10
curl_easy_header runs at O(N) or worse and can be abused to use minute(s) of CPU time#3133253InformativeDenial of Service–2025-07-01–9
Memory leak from doh_write_cb#3089595InformativeDenial of ServiceNone2025-06-29–9
CVE-2026-11352: QUIC zero-length UDP datagrams busy-loop#3783438ValidDenial of ServiceLow2026-06-24–7
HTTP/2 proxy CONNECT tunnel unbounded 1xx chain (missing Curl_bump_headersize cap in cf-h2-proxy.c)#3734020InformativeDenial of ServiceNone2026-05-19–7
CVE-2026-11586 fix is incomplete: auto-PONG memory grows without limit through curl_ws_recv() (CONNECT_ONLY)#4123050InformativeDenial of ServiceLow2026-10-21–6
CVE-2026-11586: WS Auto-PONG memory exhaustion#3788931ValidDenial of ServiceLow2026-06-24–6
Denial of Service in curl Request - HTTP headers eat all memory#2552192N/ADenial of ServiceMedium2024-06-18–6
curl EXPIRE_SHUTDOWN timer never armed for silent servers: connection-shutdown timeout bypass in cshutdn (event-driven mode)#4125065InformativeDenial of ServiceMedium2026-10-23–5
CVE-2022-27781: CERTINFO never-ending busy-loop#1555441ValidDenial of ServiceLow2022-05-16–5
passive FTPS data connection handshake blocks curl_multi_perform() with no timeout (regression in 8.19.0)#4122567InformativeDenial of ServiceLow2026-10-23–4
Stack exhaustion in MIME multipart reading with deeply nested subparts#3684603N/ADenial of ServiceMedium2026-04-29–4
CVE-2022-32206: HTTP compression denial of service#1570651ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2022-06-27–4
CVE-2022-32205: Set-Cookie denial of service#1569946ValidDenial of ServiceLow2022-06-27–4
Memory leak in CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER#1567257InformativeDenial of ServiceMedium2022-05-13–4
Denial of Service vulnerability in curl when parsing MQTT server response#1521610InformativeDenial of ServiceMedium2022-03-28–3
CVE-2020-8285: FTP wildcard stack overflow#1045844ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2021-01-08–3
Poll loop/hang on incomplete HTTP header#889160InformativeDenial of ServiceMedium2021-01-22–3
curl "globbing" can lead to denial of service attacks#1572120N/ADenial of ServiceLow2022-06-16–1
Parallel upload hangs curl if upload file not found#1019372InformativeDenial of ServiceNone2020-10-29–1

Status and severity are HackerOne's. “Access stated” is what the title says; “Access needed” and techniques come from CyberSIXT's analysis of the public report (4,365 analysed so far), which can be wrong. Data as of 2026-11-15.