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CVE-2026-54463MEDIUMCVSS 0.0

websocket-driver: Memory exhaustion via abuse of protocol length headers

Published Jul 15, 2026·Updated Aug 17, 2026

NVD Description

### Impact The frame format in draft versions of the WebSocket protocol includes a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as a sequence of bytes with the high bit set. By sending an indefinite sequence of bytes with values `0x80` or above, a server or client can make the other peer parse these bytes into an ever-growing integer. Since Ruby integers are arbitrary precision, this can be used to make a WebSocket connection consume an unbounded amount of memory and lead to the host process running out of memory. ### Patches The issue has been patched in version 0.8.1. 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.

Affected Packages (1)

websocket-driverGEM
Fixed in 0.8.1

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