Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 16, 2026· Updated Jul 17, 2026
Centrifugo: Decompression bomb DoS via permessage-deflate in unidirectional WebSocket transport
CVE-2026-62963
Description
Centrifugo is an open-source scalable real-time messaging server. Prior to 6.8.4, Centrifugo unidirectional WebSocket transport with uni_websocket.compression enabled enforced uni_websocket.message_size_limit against compressed wire-frame length in internal/websocket/conn.go advanceFrame, but ReadMessage used io.ReadAll after decompression without an output cap, allowing unauthenticated requests to /connection/uni_websocket to trigger large memory and CPU consumption. This issue is fixed in version 6.8.4.
Affected products
1- Range: <6.8.4
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo/commit/46d40e4ac3a5446c9745f8b219197166ae12a6e5mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo/pull/1162mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo/releases/tag/v6.8.4mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo/security/advisories/GHSA-q6mr-3g59-5m8xmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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