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CVE-2026-54463

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-07-17 Modified: 2026-08-06

Description

websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.1, draft versions of the WebSocket protocol in websocket-driver include a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as bytes with the high bit set, and a server or client can send an indefinite sequence of 0x80 or higher bytes that the peer parses into an ever-growing Ruby integer. This can make a WebSocket connection consume an unbounded amount of memory and lead to the host process running out of memory. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.1.

Affected Platforms

Faye Websocket-Driver

Weakness Type

CWE-770

References