Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Exploit Intelligence
CVE-2026-87742
A flaw was found in quarkus-websockets-next. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by streaming messages over a single connection faster than the application can process them. Due to unbounded message buffering and a lack of read backpressure, this rapidly exhausts heap space, leading to a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError that crashes the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (55.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 55.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-87742 (vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69470 (vendor-advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69440 (vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-87742?
- CVE-2026-87742 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Exploit Intelligence, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-09-17.
- How severe is CVE-2026-87742?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.