Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-54466

CVE-2026-54466

faye websocket-driver-node — websocket-driver: Message corruption via abuse of protocol length headers

Description · from the CVE record

websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.7.5, the frame format in draft versions of the WebSocket protocol includes a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as a sequence of bytes with the high bit set. By sending an indefinite sequence of bytes with values 0x80 or above, a client can make the server parse these bytes into an ever-growing integer in lib/websocket/driver/draft75.js; because JavaScript numbers are 64-bit floating point values, this number will eventually lose precision and lead to the subsequent payload being parsed incorrectly. This issue is fixed in version 0.7.5.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
websocket-driver-node< 0.7.5–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

References

refgithub.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/security/advisories/GHSA-xv26-6w52-cph6refgithub.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/commit/5b197ca874dab58e96cacad8a3c256797d804680