What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-10542

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

ws is a "simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested websocket client, server and console for node.js, up-to-date against RFC-6455". By sending an overly long websocket payload to a `ws` server, it is possible to crash the node process. This affects ws 1.1.0 and earlier.

Affected products

• websockets ws: through 1.1.0

References

• https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/120
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/120

Get alerted when CVE-2016-10542 or the next vulnerability affects your stack