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)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-48779

high Nessus Plugin ID 321689

Version 1.5