highCVSS 7.5Vulnerability

GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2

## Summary `http4s-blaze-server` aggregates the fragments of an incoming WebSocket message with no limit on total size or fragment count. A client that completes a WebSocket handshake can send an unterminated fragmented message and drive unbounded heap growth in the server JVM, resulting in denial of service via `OutOfMemoryError`. ## Impact Any http4s application serving WebSocket routes over `BlazeServerBuilder` is affected; no non-default configuration is required, and `maxWebSocketBufferSize` does not bound the aggregate (it bounds only individual frames). A single connection sending continuation frames that never set FIN forces the server to buffer every fragment until the heap is exhausted, terminating the JVM with `OutOfMemoryError` on the blaze selector thread. Small fragments amplify the cost through per-frame object overhead, so a modest volume of wire bytes is sufficient. Where the WebSocket endpoint is reachable without authentication the attacker is unauthenticated and remote; where the handshake requires a principal, any authenticated client can still trigger it. ## Workarounds - No blaze-server configuration bounds the aggregate; `maxWebSocketBufferSize` is not a mitigation. - Terminate/limit WebSocket traffic at a fronting layer that enforces message-size and fragment limits, or disable WebSocket routes. - Longer term: blaze is EOL upstream; plan migration to a maintained backend (e.g. ember).

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2
summary
blaze: Unbounded WebSocket message aggregation in http4s-blaze-server
severity
high
cvss_score
7.5
cve_id
GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-07-24T22:28:05Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2
ghsa_updated
2026-07-24T22:28:07Z

Related Entities (8)

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (3)

[Software]maven/org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.13
[Software]maven/org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_3
[Software]maven/org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.12

AFFECTS (3)

[Software]maven/org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.12
[Software]maven/org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.13
[Software]maven/org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_3

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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