CVE-2016-10542: Ws Project Ws

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Ws Project Ws: up to and including 1.1.0

Published 2018-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.