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medium 5.9

CVE-2026-109932 json

undici WebSocket client vulnerable to Denial of Service via unbounded automatic PONG buffering

published 25d ago modified 13d ago also GHSA-9fm3-97px-rjf6 , EUVD-2026-102321

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

undici is an HTTP client library for Node.js. In versions 5.15.0 through 6.29.0, 7.0.0 through 7.30.0, and 8.0.0 through 8.12.1, its WebSocket client, including the bundled WebSocket exposed by Node.js, can be driven to exhaust process memory by a malicious or compromised WebSocket server. For every PING frame received, the client automatically writes a PONG response and ignores the backpressure signal from the socket write, so a server that streams small PING frames while never reading the client's PONGs makes the outbound write queue and heap grow without bound until the Node.js process runs out of memory and terminates. The attack is remote and unauthenticated, needs only a normal WebSocket connection, and is asymmetric, since small inbound PINGs produce a much larger retained outbound queue, with availability the only impact. The issue is fixed in undici 6.29.1, 7.30.1, and 8.12.2, which pause WebSocket frame parsing when the automatic PONG response hits socket backpressure and resume on drain, bounding the outbound queue, and users should upgrade to one of those versions or later. There is no workaround.

Patch / fix

  • npm undici 6.29.1, 7.30.1, 8.12.2
  • undici undici 6.29.1, 7.30.1, 8.12.2
  • node-undici Debian 14 8.12.2+dfsg+~cs3.2.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-109932

  • nodejs24 hummingbird 1 24.21.0-1.5.hum1
  • nodejs24-bin hummingbird 1 24.21.0-1.5.hum1
  • nodejs24-npm hummingbird 1 11.19.0-1.24.21.0.1.5.hum1
  • nodejs24-libs hummingbird 1 24.21.0-1.5.hum1
  • nodejs24-npm-bin hummingbird 1 24.21.0-1.5.hum1
  • nodejs24-full-i18n hummingbird 1 24.21.0-1.5.hum1
  • nodejs26 hummingbird 1 26.11.1-0.4.hum1
  • nodejs26-bin hummingbird 1 26.11.1-0.4.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:84706RHSA-2026:84657

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-109932 updated cvss 5.9

undici: undici: Denial of Service via unbounded WebSocket PONG buffering

  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 cryostat/cryostat-openshift-console-plugin-rhel9
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence/vulnerability-analysis-rhel9
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-bin.zip 7.14.1.CR3, amq-broker-maven-repository.zip 7.14.1.CR3 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 automation-platform-ui 2.6.15-1.el9ap Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop rh-podman-desktop a4ea1f988eb28bc86ab3516bba3a4973b252a17e
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-lightspeed-backend, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-orchestrator-backend, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-orchestrator-backend-module-loki, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-scaffolder-backend-module-orchestrator
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 npm, nodejs, nodejs-libs, ubi8/s2i-base, nodejs-nodemon, ubi8/nodejs-24, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 npm, nodejs, nodejs-libs, ubi9/nodejs-24, nodejs-full-i18n, ubi9/nodejs-24-minimal Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 ubi10/nodejs-24, grafana 12.4.3-2.el10, nodejs26 26.1.0-1.el10, ubi10/nodejs-24-minimal, nodejs22 22.23.2-3.el10_2, nodejs24 24.21.0-1.el10_2
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images nodejs25 25.9.0-1.7.hum1
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9, rhoai/odh-core-bff-rhel9, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-maas-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-automl-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-gen-ai-rhel9, +7 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 wasmedge, wasmedge-rt, openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift5/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9, odf4/odf-console-rhel9, odf4/ocs-client-console-rhel9, odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/code-rhel9, devspaces/openvsx-rhel9, devspaces/dashboard-rhel9, devspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
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  • Red Hat Secrets Management Console for Red Hat OpenShift external-secrets-management/console-plugin-rhel9
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal, ansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images nodejs24 24.21.0-1.5.hum1, nodejs26 26.11.1-0.4.hum1, nodejs26 26.12.1-0.1.hum1, nodejs24-bin 24.21.0-1.5.hum1, nodejs26-bin 26.11.1-0.4.hum1, nodejs26-bin 26.12.1-0.1.hum1, +12 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:84706
  • Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.5 rhtas/rhtas-console-ui-rhel9 1793114810
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:95124
  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana12.4 12.4.12-0.4.hum1 Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.5 rhtas/rhtas-console-rhel9 1793108442
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
24d ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm undici
>=5.15.0, <6.29.1
>=7.0.0, <7.30.1
>=8.0.0, <8.12.2
6.29.1
7.30.1
8.12.2

Affected products

  • undici undici

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-405 Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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