๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-85014

MEDIUM 5.9

undici vulnerable to Denial of Service via WebSocketStream unclean close

CVSS Score
5.9
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

undici's experimental WebSocketStream client crashes the whole Node.js process when a remote peer closes the TCP connection without a WebSocket close handshake. On an unclean close the internal socket-close handler calls abort on the writable stream unconditionally and discards the returned promise, but per the WHATWG Streams standard aborting a locked writable returns a promise that rejects with a TypeError. Because the application holds a writer on that writable, which is the only way to write, the rejection is never observed and Node's default unhandled-rejection behavior terminates the process. An untrusted server can therefore crash a client with a single abrupt disconnect, with no authentication and no application mistake. This affects undici versions from 7.0.0 up to 7.29.1 and from 8.0.0 up to 8.10.2. Users should upgrade to undici 7.29.1 or 8.10.2.

CWE CWE-248 CWE-754
Vendor undici
Product undici
Published Sep 4, 2026
Last Updated Sep 4, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

undici / undici
7.0.0 < 7.29.1 8.0.0 < 8.10.2

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-rx4f-c7p8-82vq cna.openjsf.org: https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html

Credits

๐Ÿ” Yanhaoxi mcollina UlisesGascon