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Low · 3.7 CVE-2026-25224 EUVD-2026-5158GHSA-mrq3-vjjr-p77c

Fastify Vulnerable to DoS via Unbounded Memory Allocation in sendWebStream

Published Feb 3, 2026 · Updated Feb 4, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Fastify is a fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Prior to version 5.7.3, a denial-of-service vulnerability in Fastify’s Web Streams response handling can allow a remote client to exhaust server memory. Applications that return a ReadableStream (or Response with a Web Stream body) via reply.send() are impacted. A slow or non-reading client can trigger unbounded buffering when backpressure is ignored, leading to process crashes or severe degradation. This issue has been patched in version 5.7.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
fastify fastify < 5.7.3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm fastify < 5.7.3 5.7.3 GHSA-mrq3-vjjr-p77c

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