chore(deps): update dependency ws to v8.20.1 [security] (main)

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Package	Change	Age	Confidence
ws	8.19.0 → 8.20.1

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ws: Uninitialized memory disclosure

CVE-2026-45736 / GHSA-58qx-3vcg-4xpx

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Details

Impact

The websocket.close() implementation is vulnerable to uninitialized memory disclosure when a TypedArray is passed as the reason argument.

Proof of concept

import { deepStrictEqual } from 'node:assert';
import { WebSocket, WebSocketServer } from 'ws';

const wss = new WebSocketServer(
  { port: 0, skipUTF8Validation: true },
  function () {
    const { port } = wss.address();
    const ws = new WebSocket(`ws://localhost:${port}`, {
      skipUTF8Validation: true
    });

    ws.on('close', function (code, reason) {
      deepStrictEqual(reason, Buffer.alloc(80));
    });
  }
);

wss.on('connection', function (ws) {
  ws.close(1000, new Float32Array(20));
});

Patches

The vulnerability was fixed in ws@8.20.1 (websockets/ws@c0327ec).

Credits

Credit for the private and responsible disclosure of this issue goes to Nikita Skovoroda.

Remarks

Although the calculated CVSS severity is medium, the actual severity is believed to be low, as the flaw is only exploitable through misuse that is unlikely in practice.

Resources

• GHSA-58qx-3vcg-4xpx
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45736

Severity

• CVSS Score: 4.4 / 10 (Medium)
• Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

• https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-58qx-3vcg-4xpx
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45736
• https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/c0327ec15a54d701eb6ccefaa8bef328cfc03086
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-58qx-3vcg-4xpx

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

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Release Notes

websockets/ws (ws)

v8.20.1

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Bug fixes

• Fixed an uninitialized memory disclosure issue in websocket.close()
  (c0327ec).

Providing a TypedArray (e.g. Float32Array) as the reason argument for
websocket.close(), rather than the supported string or Buffer types, caused
uninitialized memory to be disclosed to the remote peer.

import { deepStrictEqual } from 'node:assert';
import { WebSocket, WebSocketServer } from 'ws';

const wss = new WebSocketServer(
  { port: 0, skipUTF8Validation: true },
  function () {
    const { port } = wss.address();
    const ws = new WebSocket(`ws://localhost:${port}`, {
      skipUTF8Validation: true
    });

    ws.on('close', function (code, reason) {
      deepStrictEqual(reason, Buffer.alloc(80));
    });
  }
);

wss.on('connection', function (ws) {
  ws.close(1000, new Float32Array(20));
});

The issue was privately reported by Nikita Skovoroda.

v8.20.0

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Features

• Added exports for the PerMessageDeflate class and utilities for the
  Sec-WebSocket-Extensions and Sec-WebSocket-Protocol headers (d3503c1).

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