High severity · published Mar 12, 2026
CVE-2026-1526
undici is vulnerable to Unbounded Memory Consumption in undici WebSocket permessage-deflate Decompression
7.5
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UN
undici · undici
< 6.24.0; 7.0.0 < 7.24.0 · source: vendor, NVD
CO
Cluster Observability Operator 1.5.0 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
C4
Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
OL
OpenShift Lightspeed · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
OP
OpenShift Pipelines · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Developer Hub · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1526
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-1526
Vendor Advisory
https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
Technical Description
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7692
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-vrm6-8vpv-qv8q
Permissions Required
https://hackerone.com/reports/3481206
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13826
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17789
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