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restbed through 5.0.0 WebSocket Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded Frame Buffering

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

restbed through 5.0.0 accepts WebSocket frames with declared payload lengths up to 2^63 bytes and buffers the payload without size limits in an unbounded stream buffer. Remote unauthenticated attackers can declare large frame sizes and stream payload data to exhaust server memory, causing denial of service through process crash.

Announced Group revision 1
Original source ↗

CVE-2026-103472

Primary source · Revision 1

Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.

Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-103472

restbed

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "vendor": "Corvusoft",
    "product": "restbed",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.0.0"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-103472

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

high

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#7615 · Revision 1
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