CVE-2026-54490
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
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.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.3
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-17 21:17:08.780000
Last modified
2026-10-24 20:10:00.137000
View original CVE JSON
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"id": "CVE-2026-54490",
"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-07-17T21:17:08.780",
"lastModified": "2026-10-24T20:10:00.137",
"vulnStatus": "Deferred",
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"value": "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."
},
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"value": "websocket-driver es un gestor del protocolo WebSocket con E/S conectable. Antes de la versión 0.7.5, si esta biblioteca se utiliza con la extensión permessage-deflate, un servidor o cliente WebSocket puede ser inducido a aceptar mensajes que son más grandes que el tamaño máximo de mensaje configurado porque el límite se verifica contra los encabezados de longitud de los marcos de mensaje, que indican el tamaño de los datos comprimidos, no el tamaño después de la descompresión en lib/websocket/driver/hybi.js. Esto puede llevar a que las aplicaciones acepten mensajes más grandes de lo esperado y excedan su uso de recursos previsto. Este problema está solucionado en la versión 0.7.5."
}
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"affected": [
{
"source": "[email protected]",
"affectedData": [
{
"vendor": "faye",
"product": "websocket-driver-node",
"versions": [
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"status": "affected"
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"Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
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"description": [
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"references": [
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"url": "https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/commit/c55679a5b18251dd0a55d18a0cc6a4fd8822b92f",
"source": "[email protected]"
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"url": "https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/security/advisories/GHSA-mp7j-qc5w-4988",
"source": "[email protected]"
}
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}