Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libwebsockets  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2510-LIBWEBSOCKETS-13653303
  • published26 Feb 2026
  • disclosed20 Oct 2025

Introduced: 20 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-11677  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwebsockets package and not the libwebsockets package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Use After Free in WebSocket server implementation in lws_handshake_server in warmcat libwebsockets may allow an attacker, in specific configurations where the user provides a callback function that handles LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_CONFIRM_UPGRADE, to achieve denial of service.