Bug 2501933 (CVE-2026-54464) - CVE-2026-54464 websocket-driver: websocket-driver: Denial of Service due to oversized decompressed WebSocket messages
Summary: CVE-2026-54464 websocket-driver: websocket-driver: Denial of Service due to o...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-54464
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-07-17 21:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-25 18:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-17 21:02:10 UTC
### Impact

If this library is used in tandem with the `permessage-deflate` extension, a
WebSocket server or client can be made to accept messages that are larger than
the configured maximum message size. This is because this limit is checked
against the message frames' length headers, which give the size of the
compressed data, not the size after decompression. This can lead to applications
accepting larger messages than expected and exceeding their intended resource
usage.

### Patches

The issue has been patched in version 0.8.1, by checking the length of messages
after they are processed by incoming extensions. All users should upgrade to
this version.

### Workarounds

No known workarounds exist.

### Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered and reported by Pranjali Thakur, DepthFirst Security
Research Team.


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