CVE-2026-1526
HighCVSS 7.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk64th percentile - higher than 64% of all known CVEs
Summary
The undici WebSocket client is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack via unbounded memory consumption during permessage-deflate decompression. 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.
Risk Assessment
The organization risks service disruption in Node.js applications using the undici WebSocket client, potentially leading to downtime and financial losses.
Recommendation
Immediately update the undici library to a version that limits decompressed data size in the PerMessageDeflate.decompress() method. If an update is not possible, temporarily disable the permessage-deflate extension in the WebSocket client configuration.
Other vulnerabilities in undici
See all- CVE-2026-15157Medium
In undici before versions 6.28.0, 7.29.0, and 8.9.0, the 'type' property of hand-rolled blob-like request bodies is not validated. An attacker can inject CRLF sequences and append arbitrary HTTP headers, potentially smuggling a second request.
- CVE-2026-14643Medium
In undici before versions 7.29.0 and 8.9.0, the cache interceptor mishandles optional whitespace around the equals sign in Cache-Control directives. This can cause authenticated user data to be cached and served to other users.
- CVE-2026-16728Medium
In undici before versions 6.28.0, 7.29.0, and 8.9.0, the retry interceptor can deliver a response whose body length does not match the Content-Length header, potentially leading to response desynchronization, connection hangs, or response corruption.
- CVE-2026-16729Medium
The setCookie function in undici before versions 6.28.0, 7.29.0, and 8.9.0 does not fully sanitize cookie attributes. Domain values are not checked for semicolons, and unparsed array entries are not sanitized, allowing attacker-influenced input to inject additional attributes like SameSite, HttpOnly, or Secure without the caller's knowledge.
- CVE-2026-13697High
In undici before versions 7.29.0 and 8.9.0, the cache interceptor mishandles malformed Cache-Control private directives. A response with a private directive set to an empty value can be stored in the shared cache and served to other users, disclosing private data. Additionally, combining an unqualified and qualified private directive causes a TypeError that can crash the process.
- CVE-2026-9697High
A vulnerability in the undici library causes the requestTls option to be silently dropped when using ProxyAgent with a SOCKS5 proxy. The HTTPS connection through the SOCKS5 tunnel falls back to Node's default trust store instead of user-configured settings.
- CVE-2026-9679Medium
Undici's cookie parser (parseSetCookie) decodes cookie values, which can lead to HTTP response header injection. Applications that forward parsed cookie values into response headers become vulnerable to attacks such as session fixation or malicious redirects.
- CVE-2026-9678Medium
A vulnerability in Undici allows incorrect classification of responses as cacheable when Cache-Control headers contain whitespace. This can lead to authenticated user data being served to another user from the cache.
- CVE-2026-6734High
In the undici library, a vulnerability allows Socks5ProxyAgent to reuse a single connection pool across different origins without verifying origin match. This causes cross-origin request routing, credential leakage, and potential HTTPS downgrade to HTTP.
- CVE-2026-11525Low
A vulnerability in undici allows the acceptance of incorrect SameSite attribute values in the Set-Cookie header, potentially leading to a weakening of the cookie's SameSite policy. Instead of the required case-insensitive exact match, values containing 'Strict', 'Lax', or 'None' as substrings are accepted.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.

