CVE-2026-54463
MEDIUMwebsocket-driver: Memory exhaustion via abuse of protocol length headers
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-ruby/security/advisories/GHSA-ghhp-3qvg-889p
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-ruby/commit/d0141f041f6e3677a951255d547a313e732ccbe0
Scores
CVSS v4
6.9
EPSS
0.0032
EPSS Percentile
24.9%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-770
Status
published
Products (1)
faye/websocket-driver-ruby
< 0.8.1
Published
Jul 17, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 18, 2026