CVE-2026-54466

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

State
Published
Severity
9.2 Critical
Published
Jul 17, 2026
Updated
Jul 20, 2026
Reserved
Jun 15, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.2 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

Affected Products

ProductVersions
websocket-driver-nodefaye
  • < 0.7.5Affected

References

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