CVE-2026-54465 PUBLISHED

websocket-driver: Memory exhaustion in HTTP header parser

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.06.2026 Published: 17.07.2026 Updated: 17.07.2026

websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.1, when websocket-driver is used to implement a WebSocket server on top of a TCP server using WebSocket::Driver.server() or to complement a WebSocket client, a peer can make a single connection consume an unbounded amount of memory by sending an HTTP request or response with a never-ending list of headers. This can lead to the receiving process running out of memory. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.1.

Metrics

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
CVSS Score: 6.3

Product Status

Vendor faye
Product websocket-driver-ruby
Versions
  • Version < 0.8.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE