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Critical · 9.2 CVE-2026-54466 EUVD-2026-45335GHSA-xv26-6w52-cph6

websocket-driver: Message corruption via abuse of protocol length headers

Published Jul 17, 2026 · Updated Jul 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
faye websocket-driver-node < 0.7.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 node-websocket-driver 0.7.5+~cs0.6.14-1 —
Debian 13 node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
Debian 12 node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS node-websocket-driver No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed agama-web-ui 24+0.a836cced5-52.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11680-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 agama-web-ui 17+673.b97ba64d6-160000.12.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21448-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling argo-workflows-ui-4.0 4.0.11-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm websocket-driver < 0.7.5 0.7.5 GHSA-xv26-6w52-cph6

Advisories 3

References