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31 Aug 2026, 7:13 PM	Hacker News	5.5	A CVE Dispute Daniel Stenberg explains curl's CVE philosophy as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), having published 57 CVEs since becoming one. With libcurl installed in roughly 30 billion instances, each CVE triggers massive global patching activity, so curl reserves a 'lower than LOW' tier for issues so convoluted that no user is likely to reach them, declining to issue CVEs for those. The article introduces curl's first-ever CVE dispute, though the text cuts off before details. Why: If you maintain or depend on curl/libcurl, understand that curl deliberately suppresses CVEs for theoretical-only issues to avoid forcing billions of installs into unnecessary patching cycles. This means your security dashboards may not surface every curl issue the maintainers know about—you may need to track curl's own advisories rather than rely solely on CVE feeds for completeness. security cve open-source curl vulnerability-management

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31 Aug 2026, 7:13 PM

Hacker News

5.5

A CVE Dispute

Daniel Stenberg explains curl's CVE philosophy as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), having published 57 CVEs since becoming one. With libcurl installed in roughly 30 billion instances, each CVE triggers massive global patching activity, so curl reserves a 'lower than LOW' tier for issues so convoluted that no user is likely to reach them, declining to issue CVEs for those. The article introduces curl's first-ever CVE dispute, though the text cuts off before details.

Why: If you maintain or depend on curl/libcurl, understand that curl deliberately suppresses CVEs for theoretical-only issues to avoid forcing billions of installs into unnecessary patching cycles. This means your security dashboards may not surface every curl issue the maintainers know about—you may need to track curl's own advisories rather than rely solely on CVE feeds for completeness.