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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-54490 EUVD-2026-45336GHSA-mp7j-qc5w-4988

websocket-driver: Resource limit bypass via message compression

Published Jul 17, 2026 · Updated Jul 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

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 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-mp7j-qc5w-4988

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