CVE-2022-32206: exploitation status and patch state

CVE-2022-32206 · CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM · EPSS 32%

curl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of memory errors.

Is CVE-2022-32206 exploited?

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Is there a patch?

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KEV and EPSS are re-checked daily. Record last updated 2026-08-11.