CVE-2026-61666 PUBLISHED

websocket-driver: Denial of service via malformed Host header

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 10.07.2026 Published: 17.08.2026 Updated: 17.08.2026

websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.2, WebSocket::Driver.server() passes a malformed Host header to URI.parse in lib/websocket/http/request.rb without catching URI::InvalidURIError, allowing a remote client to crash a TCP-backed WebSocket server when the application does not catch the error from parse(). This issue is fixed in version 0.8.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
CVSS Score: 8.9

Product Status

Vendor faye
Product websocket-driver-ruby
Versions
  • Version < 0.8.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-248: Uncaught Exception CWE