# blaze: Unbounded WebSocket message aggregation in http4s-blaze-server

Advisory record · `GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2` · `CVE-2026-73493`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-770](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Published:** 24 Jul 2026
- **Updated:** 12 Aug 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 24 Jul 2026, 22:28 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.13` (Maven): affected `<0.23.18 || >=1.0.0-M1, <1.0.0-M42`; fixed in `0.23.18`, `1.0.0-M42`
- `org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.12` (Maven): affected `<0.23.18`; fixed in `0.23.18`
- `org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_3` (Maven): affected `>=1.0.0-M1, <1.0.0-M42`; fixed in `1.0.0-M42`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Versions of http4s-blaze-server before 0.23.18, and from 1.0.0-M1 up to but not including 1.0.0-M42, are affected. A client that completes a WebSocket handshake can send a fragmented message that is never terminated, forcing the server to buffer fragments without limit until the JVM runs out of memory and crashes. Upgrade to 0.23.18 or 1.0.0-M42. No configuration option bounds the buffering, so the only listed workaround is to limit WebSocket traffic at a fronting layer or disable WebSocket routes.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.5 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0063, the 50th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2)
- [OSV: GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2)
- <https://github.com/http4s/blaze/security/advisories/GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2>
- <https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/173e8ca820a0d12110bfe409c72e9b9c3d28d471>
- <https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/2ae13a74d55209b6573d5228d1aa94f0361a75d0>
- <https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/fadbe6d0f7f59045425688d313c8d4804973d12f>
- <https://github.com/http4s/blaze>
- <https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v0.23.18>
- <https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M42>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

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- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-7ppr-r889-mcf2>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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