ws is an open source WebSocket client and server for Node.js. All versions from 1.1.0 up to (but not including) 5.2.5, from 6.0.0 up to 6.2.4, from 7.0.0 up to 7.5.11, and from 8.0.0 up to 8.21.0 are affected by a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability. A peer can send a high volume of exceptionally small fragments and data chunks, with modest network traffic, to force the remote peer into allocating and holding structural wrappers that consume far more memory than the default documented message-size limit, leading to process termination due to OOM. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.2.5, 6.2.4, 7.5.11, and 8.21.0.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - ws is an open source WebSocket client and server for Node.js. All versions from 1.1.0 up to (but not
    including) 5.2.5, from 6.0.0 up to 6.2.4, from 7.0.0 up to 7.5.11, and from 8.0.0 up to 8.21.0 are
    affected by a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability. A peer can send a high volume of exceptionally small
    fragments and data chunks, with modest network traffic, to force the remote peer into allocating and
    holding structural wrappers that consume far more memory than the default documented message-size limit,
    leading to process termination due to OOM. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.2.5, 6.2.4, 7.5.11, and
    8.21.0. (CVE-2026-48779)

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21849-1 advisory.

    Changes in kimi-code:

    Update to version 0.42.0:

      * Add an experimental Updates panel with paginated progress         messages from the main agent and subagents, enabled with         KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_NOTIFY_USER=1
      * Turn the subagent model pool, Remote Control and the minidb         session-index read model with the global search worker always         on; their experimental flags and opt-out variables are gone,         search persistence is now tuned via the [database] section
      * Give tower worker and reviewer briefings the full mission         context, follow the subagent timeout for tower agents, and         show each background agent's model in /tasks
      * Retrieve file search matches beyond the first 100 results,         accept HEIC, HEIF and BMP images with Kimi-served models,         and warn in kimi -p when project MCP servers are skipped in         an untrusted folder
      * Read files with configurable character limits and resumable         long-line reads, decode malformed UTF-16 with a warning, and         preserve image and video filenames in session history
      * Rework the dashboard: deletable sessions, reorderable media         rail, collapsed tool calls revealed with Ctrl-O, and less         jank on long conversations and session reloads

    Update to version 0.41.0:

      * Add experimental tower mode for multi-agent orchestration and         Remote Control for reaching a local web session remotely
      * Add the WaitFor tool so the agent can wait for a background         task inside the current turn, and an optional fork parameter         that starts a subagent from a snapshot of the caller's history
      * Support two OAuth login methods, kimi.ai and kimi.com, and         activate several skills in one prompt
      * Enable the subagent model pool in every launch mode by default         and make turn-level file history unconditional
      * Add a dangerous-command guard that always asks before shutdown,         reboot or rm -rf in manual and YOLO permission modes, disabled         with [permission] dangerous_command_guard; auto mode never         blocks
      * Remove kimi web --allow-remote-terminals; PTY terminal routes         are served on loopback binds only
      * Require Edit and Write to read a file first, and reject a write         when the file changed on disk since that read
      * Rework the bundled web dashboard: multi-tab right sidebar,         Open/Done/Workspaces session tabs, a plugin marketplace panel         and mobile bottom sheets
      * ... see upstream's release notes for the full list
    - Vendor the runtime dependencies upstream stopped inlining in       0.39.0:
      * Add ws, qrcode and qrcode's own pngjs and dijkstrajs as         sources, installed into the package's private node_modules
      * Unpack the npm tarball directly instead of running npm install,         which would resolve the new dependencies against the registry         and pull in qrcode's CLI-only yargs tree
      * Declare the vendored trees with Provides: bundled(...)
    - CVE-2026-48779: ws denial of service from a high volume of tiny       WebSocket fragments; the ws inlined in the old bundle predated       the 8.21.0 fix, the vendored ws is 8.21.3 (boo#1268927)
    - CVE-2026-45736: ws uninitialized memory disclosure via       websocket.close() with a TypedArray, fixed by the same ws version       (boo#1269951)
    - Load the compiled node-pty addon during the build check as well

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:57590 advisory.

    Red Hat build of Podman Desktop is a graphical tool for managing containers using Podman. It allows users     to run, manage, and configure containers and container images using a desktop GUI.

    Security Fix(es):

    * github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted     JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object (CVE-2026-34986)

    * ip-address: ip-address: Cross-site scripting via improper HTML escaping of untrusted input     (CVE-2026-42338)

    * protobufjs: protobufjs: Denial of Service via crafted JSON descriptors (CVE-2026-45740)

    * ws: ws: Uninitialized memory disclosure via `websocket.close()` with `TypedArray` (CVE-2026-45736)

    * devalue: devalue: Excessive memory consumption via deserialization of sparse arrays (CVE-2026-42570)

    * tmp: path Traversal via unsanitized prefix/postfix enables directory escape (CVE-2026-44705)

    * form-data: form-data: Form field override via CRLF injection (CVE-2026-12143)

    * webpack-dev-server: webpack-dev-server: Information disclosure and denial of service via improper proxy     configuration (CVE-2026-9595)

    * ws: ws: Denial of Service via memory exhaustion from small WebSocket fragments (CVE-2026-48779)

    * extract-zip: github.com/maxogden/extract-zip: extract-zip: Arbitrary file write and information     disclosure via symlink validation bypass (CVE-2026-56876)

    * fast-uri: fast-uri: Security policy bypass due to improper Unicode hostname canonicalization     (CVE-2026-13676)

    * brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity (CVE-2026-13149)

    * tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header (CVE-2026-59874)

    * tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb (CVE-2026-59873)

    * js-yaml: js-yaml: Denial of Service via crafted YAML documents (CVE-2026-59869)

    * protobufjs: protobufjs: Denial of Service via crafted .proto schema (CVE-2026-59877)

    * grpc-js: @grpc/grpc-js: Server crash via malformed HTTP/2 stream initiation (CVE-2026-48068)

    * linkify-it: linkify-it: Denial of Service via algorithmic complexity vulnerability (CVE-2026-48801)

    * dompurify: DOMPurify: Cross-site scripting vulnerability allows code execution (CVE-2026-49978)

    * brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service via memory exhaustion in expand() function     (CVE-2026-14257)

    * postcss: PostCSS: Information disclosure and denial of service via crafted CSS input (CVE-2026-45623)

    * postcss: PostCSS: Information disclosure via crafted sourceMappingURL (CVE-2026-69153)

    * brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded intermediate arrays, bypassing the CVE-2026-14257 mitigation     (CVE-2026-69152)

    * ip-address: ip-address: Inconsistent IP address parsing leads to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and     trust-boundary bypass (CVE-2026-69192)

    Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

    * Release RH Podman Desktop 1.1.2 to RHEL 10.2 Extensions (JIRA:RHEL-238929)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21173-1 advisory.

    Changes in python-pydata-sphinx-theme:

    - Refresh js dependencies:
      * ws to 7.5.11 (bsc#1268957, CVE-2026-48779)

    - Refresh vendored tarball (CVE-2026-6321, bsc#1264374)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-31e6b85f4e advisory.

    See https://github.com/jupytext/jupytext/releases/tag/v1.19.4 for changes in version 1.19.4.  Notable,     this update fixes CVE-2026-45736 and CVE-2026-48779.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-db770b7d7a advisory.

    See https://github.com/jupytext/jupytext/releases/tag/v1.19.4 for changes in version 1.19.4.  Notable,     this update fixes CVE-2026-45736 and CVE-2026-48779.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - ws is an open source WebSocket client and server for Node.js. All versions from 1.1.0 up to (but not     including) 5.2.5, from 6.0.0 up to 6.2.4, from 7.0.0 up to 7.5.11, and from 8.0.0 up to 8.21.0 are     affected by a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability. A peer can send a high volume of exceptionally small     fragments and data chunks, with modest network traffic, to force the remote peer into allocating and     holding structural wrappers that consume far more memory than the default documented message-size limit,     leading to process termination due to OOM. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.2.5, 6.2.4, 7.5.11, and     8.21.0. (CVE-2026-48779)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
464147	Echo: ws: security update to 5.2.5	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	high
464147	Echo: ws: security update to 5.2.5	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	high
346189	openSUSE 16 Security Update : kimi-code (openSUSE-SU-2026:21849-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
338414	RHEL 10 : rh-podman-desktop (RHSA-2026:57590)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical
324058	openSUSE 16 Security Update : python-pydata-sphinx-theme (openSUSE-SU-2026:21173-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
324001	Fedora 43 : python-jupytext (2026-31e6b85f4e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
323999	Fedora 44 : python-jupytext (2026-db770b7d7a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
321689	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-48779	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
443213	SCA: security update for ws (GHSA-96hv-2xvq-fx4p)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
443213	SCA: security update for ws (GHSA-96hv-2xvq-fx4p)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high

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