ws is an open source WebSocket client and server for Node.js. All versions from 1.1.0 up to (but not including) 5.2.5, from 6.0.0 up to 6.2.4, from 7.0.0 up to 7.5.11, and from 8.0.0 up to 8.21.0 are affected by a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability. A peer can send a high volume of exceptionally small fragments and data chunks, with modest network traffic, to force the remote peer into allocating and holding structural wrappers that consume far more memory than the default documented message-size limit, leading to process termination due to OOM. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.2.5, 6.2.4, 7.5.11, and 8.21.0.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 6
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/86d3e8a5fb0246ed373860c5fbb0de88824a27f7 Patch
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/b5372ac67bb97a773727b8e9f5035a8123556d53 Patch
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/bca91adf15677e47dbe4f959653452727be28b94 Patch
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/fd36cd864fcdf62a08273a99e19a7d975401fee8 Patch
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-96hv-2xvq-fx4p Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-96hv-2xvq-fx4p Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · ws_projectNVD modified 2026-10-26 12:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:ws_project:ws:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
References 33
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/86d3e8a5fb0246ed373860c5fbb0de88824a27f7 Patch
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/b5372ac67bb97a773727b8e9f5035a8123556d53 Patch
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/bca91adf15677e47dbe4f959653452727be28b94 Patch
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/fd36cd864fcdf62a08273a99e19a7d975401fee8 Patch
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-96hv-2xvq-fx4p Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29197
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33155
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33160
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33163
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33173
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33183
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33574
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34342
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36754
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36820
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37272
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40984
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41928
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41941
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41944
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48151
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56366
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56431
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57013
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57590
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60520
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65126
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66488
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66545
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48779
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489661
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-96hv-2xvq-fx4p Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48779.json