CVE-2026-54463CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-54463

High · published July 18, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.1, draft versions of the WebSocket protocol in websocket-driver include a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as bytes with the high bit set, and a server or client can send an indefinite sequence of 0x80 or higher bytes that the peer parses into an ever-growing Ruby integer. This can make a WebSocket connection consume an unbounded amount of memory and lead to the host process running out of memory. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00488 · 41.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-07-18T00:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
faye/websocket-driver< 0.8.10.8.1
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUL 20:05Z
    websocket-driver: Memory exhaustion via abuse of protocol length headers
    cvelistv5