CVE-2026-54490CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-54490

published July 18, 2026

CVSS
6.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.7.5, if this library is used with the permessage-deflate extension, a WebSocket server or client can be made to accept messages that are larger than the configured maximum message size because the limit is checked against the message frames' length headers, which give the size of the compressed data, not the size after decompression in lib/websocket/driver/hybi.js. This can lead to applications accepting larger messages than expected and exceeding their intended resource usage. This issue is fixed in version 0.7.5.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
6.3 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00445 · 37.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-07-18T01:17Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUL 20:54Z
    websocket-driver: Resource limit bypass via message compression
    cvelistv5