undici is vulnerable to Unbounded Memory Consumption in undici WebSocket permessage-deflate Decompression (undici undici)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 1.20 % · percentile 68 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- openjs
- NVD status
- Modified
Description
The undici WebSocket client is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack via unbounded memory consumption during permessage-deflate decompression. When a WebSocket connection negotiates the permessage-deflate extension, the client decompresses incoming compressed frames without enforcing any limit on the decompressed data size. A malicious WebSocket server can send a small compressed frame (a "decompression bomb") that expands to an extremely large size in memory, causing the Node.js process to exhaust available memory and crash or become unresponsive. The vulnerability exists in the PerMessageDeflate.decompress() method, which accumulates all decompressed chunks in memory and concatenates them into a single Buffer without checking whether the total size exceeds a safe threshold.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-409 — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
- CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-vrm6-8vpv-qv8q
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3481206
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7692
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1526
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2447142
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-1526.json
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17789
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7310
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7080
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7675
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7123
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7670
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7302
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7350
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34342
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9742
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13826
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5807
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21772
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21931
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56431
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | openjs |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat-SADP |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary) |
Advisories
- GHSA-vrm6-8vpv-qv8q — Undici has Unbounded Memory Consumption in WebSocket permessage-deflate Decompression
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-11699
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-1526
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0698 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0667 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0500 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans VMware Tanzu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:undici:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*< 6.24.0cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:undici:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*≥ 7.0.0 < 7.24.0
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| undici · undici | affected < 6.24.0; 7.0.0 < 7.24.0 ; unaffected 6.24.0: 7.24.0 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |