CVE-2026-54490 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-54490: websocket-driver: Resource limit bypass via message compression

Vendor Faye
Product websocket-driver-node
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published July 17, 2026
Last update July 21, 2026

CVSS base score

6.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.7.5, if this library is used with the permessage-deflate extension, a WebSocket server or client can be made to accept messages that are larger than the configured maximum message size because the limit is checked against the message frames' length headers, which give the size of the compressed data, not the size after decompression in lib/websocket/driver/hybi.js. This can lead to applications accepting larger messages than expected and exceeding their intended resource usage. This issue is fixed in version 0.7.5.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 17, 2026 CVE published
July 21, 2026 Record updated