CVE-2026-54490
MEDIUMwebsocket-driver: Resource limit bypass via message compression
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
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https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/security/advisories/GHSA-mp7j-qc5w-4988
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https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/commit/c55679a5b18251dd0a55d18a0cc6a4fd8822b92f
Scores
CVSS v4
6.3
EPSS
0.0026
EPSS Percentile
18.0%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/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-node
< 0.7.5
Published
Jul 17, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 18, 2026