GHSA-2x63-gw47-w4mm
websocket-driver-ruby: Denial of service via malformed Host header
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | websocket-driver | < 0.8.2 | 0.8.2 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
If this library is used to implement a WebSocket server on top of a TCP server, by using the `WebSocket::Driver.server()` method, then a client can cause the server to crash by sending a `Host` header that is not a valid `host[:port]` string. When this happens, a `URI::InvalidURIError` exception is raised which is not caught, and this can cause the server process to crash if the application does not catch the error from the `parse()` method itself.
### Patches
The issue has been patched in version 0.8.2 by making the request parser catch `URI::InvalidURIError` and enter an error state if the `Host` header is malformed. This means the request is considered invalid and should not establish a WebSocket connection.
### Workarounds
No known workarounds exist.
### Acknowledgements
This issue was discovered and reported by Pranjali Thakur, DepthFirst Security Research Team.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-ruby/security/advisories/GHSA-2x63-gw47-w4mm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61666
- https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-ruby/commit/7d6fd87759a2fdc83590d3b49ffa661dc53fa128
- https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-ruby
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/a58f1d0a3343e85cef597970f2c5458dcfbaf909/gems/websocket-driver/CVE-2026-61666.yml