restbed through 5.0.0 accepts WebSocket frames with declared payload lengths up to 2^63 bytes and buffers the payload without size limits in an unbounded stream buffer. Remote unauthenticated attackers can declare large frame sizes and stream payload data to exhaust server memory, causing denial of service through process crash.
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Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:45:00 +0000
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| Description | restbed through 5.0.0 accepts WebSocket frames with declared payload lengths up to 2^63 bytes and buffers the payload without size limits in an unbounded stream buffer. Remote unauthenticated attackers can declare large frame sizes and stream payload data to exhaust server memory, causing denial of service through process crash. | |
| Title | restbed through 5.0.0 WebSocket Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded Frame Buffering | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
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Updated: 2026-09-30T17:22:39.306Z
Reserved: 2026-09-30T16:02:59.545Z
Link: CVE-2026-103472
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-09-30T18:18:17.330
Modified: 2026-09-30T19:08:43.927
Link: CVE-2026-103472
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