Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Jul 16, 2026
Debian node-ws: ws before 8.21.1 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in lib/receiver.js w…
CVE-2026-62389
Description
ws before 8.21.1 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in lib/receiver.js where the fragment guard only triggers when fragment count reaches maxFragments, allowing attackers to exhaust memory by sending incomplete fragmented WebSocket messages. Attackers can send a text frame with FIN=0 followed by continuation frames without completing the sequence, causing each fragment to be stored as a separate Buffer object with significant overhead, enabling denial of service through heap exhaustion.
Affected products
2- Range: 8.21.0, 8.20.1, 8.20.0, …
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