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CVE-2016-10544

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10544 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the uws WebSocket server library, affecting versions 0.10.0 through 0.10.8. An attacker can crash a vulnerable Node.js process by sending a specially crafted, compressed WebSocket message that, upon decompression, exceeds V8's maximum string size. This attack has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.9, indicating a network-based attack with high impact on availability and high attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.10.0, <= 0.10.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uws_project:uws:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0134 is in the 38th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: uwsFixed in: 0.10.9

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-hf5h-hh56-3vrghigh

Denial of Service in uws

Sep 1, 2020

References

github.com / uWebSockets/uWebSockets/commit/37deefd01f0875e133ea967122e3a5e421b8fcd9
PatchThird Party Advisory
nodesecurity.io / advisories/149
Third Party Advisory