CVE-2026-54466
CRITICALwebsocket-driver: Message corruption via abuse of protocol length headers
Title source: cnaDescription
websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.7.5, the frame format in draft versions of the WebSocket protocol includes a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as a sequence of bytes with the high bit set. By sending an indefinite sequence of bytes with values 0x80 or above, a client can make the server parse these bytes into an ever-growing integer in lib/websocket/driver/draft75.js; because JavaScript numbers are 64-bit floating point values, this number will eventually lose precision and lead to the subsequent payload being parsed incorrectly. This issue is fixed in version 0.7.5.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/security/advisories/GHSA-xv26-6w52-cph6
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/commit/5b197ca874dab58e96cacad8a3c256797d804680
Scores
CVSS v4
9.2
EPSS
0.0026
EPSS Percentile
18.0%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N/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-130
Status
published
Products (1)
faye/websocket-driver-node
< 0.7.5
Published
Jul 17, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 18, 2026