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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-2229"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-12T20:27:05.600Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-14T12:04:29.461Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-2229"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-2229.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-2229"
title: "undici is vulnerable to Unhandled Exception in undici WebSocket Client Due to Invalid server_max_window_bits Validation"
summary: "ImpactThe undici WebSocket client is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to improper validation of the server_max_window_bits parameter in the permessage-deflate extension. When a WebSocket client connects to a server, it automatically advertises support for permessage-deflate compression. A malicious server can respond with an out-of-range server_max_window_bits value (outside zlib's valid range of 8-15). When the server subsequently sends a compressed frame, the client attempts to create a zlib InflateRaw instance with the invalid windowBits value, causing a synchronous RangeError exception that is not caught, resulting in immediate process termination.\n\nThe vulnerability exists because:\n\n  *  The isValidClientWindowBits() function only validates that the value contains ASCII digits, not that it falls within the valid range 8-15\n  *  The createInflateRaw() call is not wrapped in a try-catch block\n  *  The resulting exception propagates up through the call stack and crashes the Node.js process"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 6.24.0; 7.0.0 \u003c 7.24.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"6.24.0: 7.24.0","status":"unaffected"}],"vendor":"undici","product":"undici","packageName":"undici","collectionURL":"https://github.com/nodejs/undici/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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