High severity · published Aug 12, 2026
CVE-2026-73493
http4s-blaze-server: Unbounded WebSocket message aggregation
7.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Http4s (http4s-blaze-server) is a minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.18 and 1.0.0-M42, http4s-blaze-server aggregates fragments of an incoming WebSocket message with no limit on total size or fragment count. A client that completes a WebSocket handshake can send an unterminated fragmented message and drive unbounded heap growth in the server JVM, resulting in denial of service through OutOfMemoryError. Any http4s application serving WebSocket routes over BlazeServerBuilder is affected, no non-default configuration is required, and maxWebSocketBufferSize does not bound the aggregate because it bounds only individual frames. A single connection sending continuation frames that never set FIN forces the server to buffer every fragment until the heap is exhausted, terminating the JVM with OutOfMemoryError on the blaze selector thread. Small fragments amplify the cost through per-frame object overhead, so a modest volume of wire bytes is sufficient. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.18 and 1.0.0-M42.
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)0.6% · higher than 50% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BL
blaze · http4s
< 0.23.18; >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M42 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73493
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73493
github.com
https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/173e8ca820a0d12110bfe409c72e9b9c3d28d471
github.com
https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v0.23.18
github.com
https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M42
github.com
https://github.com/http4s/blaze/security/advisories/GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2
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