Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting websocket-driver package, versions <0.8.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-WEBSOCKETDRIVER-17895115
  • published8 Jul 2026
  • disclosed8 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-54464  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade websocket-driver to version 0.8.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the permessage-deflate extension. An attacker can cause the application to process messages that exceed the intended resource limits by sending compressed messages that, when decompressed, are larger than the configured maximum size.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1