CVE-2026-44545 PUBLISHED

Unbounded WebSocket message and frame sizes can cause unauthenticated remote denial of service

Assigner: DSF
Reserved: 06.05.2026 Published: 03.06.2026 Updated: 03.06.2026

daphne before 4.2.2 did not pass maxFramePayloadSize or maxMessagePayloadSize to Autobahn's WebSocketServerFactory. Because Autobahn defaults both values to 0 (unlimited), an unauthenticated remote attacker could send arbitrarily large WebSocket messages or frames, causing excessive memory consumption and a denial of service.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor djangoproject
Product daphne
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 (incl.)
  • Version 4.2.2 is unaffected

Credits

  • ParkHyunWoo reporter
  • Carlton Gibson remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling) CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-130: Excessive Allocation