Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libwebsockets package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.43% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBWEBSOCKETS-17232483
  • published8 Jun 2026
  • disclosed2 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-10650  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libwebsockets.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the lws_ssh_parse_plaintext function. An attacker can exhaust system resources by sending specially crafted messages with manipulated msg_len arguments remotely.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1