CVE-2026-55517 PUBLISHED

Deno: Denial of service via non-ASCII bytes in WebSocket response headers

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.06.2026 Published: 23.06.2026 Updated: 23.06.2026

Deno is a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime. Prior to 2.7.5, a Deno program that opens a client WebSocket connection could be crashed by the remote server. While handling the WebSocket handshake response, Deno parsed the Sec-WebSocket-Protocol and Sec-WebSocket-Extensions response headers in a way that assumed their bytes were always printable ASCII. A response header containing non-visible-ASCII bytes (0x80-0xFF) caused a panic that aborted the entire Deno process. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.5.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor denoland
Product deno
Versions
  • Version < 2.7.5 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-248: Uncaught Exception CWE