Security advisory

{
  "id": "ed9f80a3fb3ba748a2b8942efa51682699eb0261c8838a07cadfb99b48039df3",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10542",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-10542",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-10542",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-10542",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-10542",
        "GHSA-6663-c963-2gqg"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/websockets/ws",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "4263f26d4dbe27e781c41a1ddfe3dab87dd9e1dc"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ws_project:ws:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.1.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.1.0",
            "1.0.1",
            "1.0.0",
            "0.8.1",
            "0.8.0",
            "0.7.2",
            "0.7.1",
            "0.7",
            "0.6.5",
            "0.6.4",
            "0.6.3",
            "0.6.2",
            "0.6",
            "0.5.0",
            "0.4.32",
            "v0.4.31",
            "v0.4.30",
            "v0.4.29",
            "v0.4.28",
            "v0.4.27",
            "v0.4.25",
            "v0.4.24",
            "v0.4.23",
            "v0.4.22",
            "v0.4.21",
            "v0.4.20",
            "v0.4.19",
            "v0.4.18",
            "v0.4.17",
            "v0.4.16",
            "v0.4.15",
            "v0.4.14",
            "v0.4.13",
            "v0.4.12",
            "v0.4.11",
            "v0.4.10",
            "v0.4.9",
            "v0.4.8",
            "v0.4.7",
            "v0.4.6",
            "v0.4.5",
            "v0.4.4",
            "v0.4.3",
            "v0.4.2",
            "v0.4.1",
            "v0.4.0",
            "v0.3.9",
            "v0.3.8",
            "v0.3.7",
            "v0.3.6",
            "v0.3.5-4",
            "v0.3.5-3",
            "v0.3.5-2",
            "v0.3.5",
            "v0.3.4-2",
            "v0.3.4",
            "v0.3.3",
            "v0.3.2",
            "v0.3.0",
            "v0.2.9",
            "v0.2.8",
            "v0.2.7",
            "v0.2.6",
            "v0.2.5",
            "v0.2.0",
            "v0.1.2",
            "v0.1.1",
            "v0.1.0",
            "v0.0.4",
            "v0.0.3",
            "v0.0.2",
            "v0.0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10542.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:45:39.504422890Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/120",
        "https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-10542",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441150,
  "published_at": "2018-05-31T20:29:01.55+00:00"
}