# CVE-2026-85014: undici vulnerable to Denial of Service via WebSocketStream unclean close

- Also known as: GHSA-RX4F-C7P8-82VQ
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.29.1, 8.10.2
- Published: 2026-09-04 · Updated: 2026-09-04

## Affected

- undici: from 7.0.0, fixed in 7.29.1; from 8.0.0, fixed in 8.10.2
- undici (npm): from 7.0.0, fixed in 7.29.1
- undici (npm): from 8.0.0, fixed in 8.10.2

## Description

undici's experimental WebSocketStream client crashes the whole Node.js process when a remote peer closes the TCP connection without a WebSocket close handshake. On an unclean close the internal socket-close handler calls abort on the writable stream unconditionally and discards the returned promise, but per the WHATWG Streams standard aborting a locked writable returns a promise that rejects with a TypeError. Because the application holds a writer on that writable, which is the only way to write, the rejection is never observed and Node's default unhandled-rejection behavior terminates the process. An untrusted server can therefore crash a client with a single abrupt disconnect, with no authentication and no application mistake. This affects undici versions from 7.0.0 up to 7.29.1 and from 8.0.0 up to 8.10.2. Users should upgrade to undici 7.29.1 or 8.10.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on undici, upgrade to a fixed version (7.29.1, 8.10.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-rx4f-c7p8-82vq
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html

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