CVE-2026-54466 PUBLISHED

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

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 0.7.5, 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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor faye
Product websocket-driver-node
Versions
  • Version < 0.7.5 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency CWE