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GHSA-fc83-9jwq-gc2m — web-push

Fix: pimeys/rust-web-push#68

GHSA-fc83-9jwq-gc2m is a CWE-130 vulnerability in web-push. A fix is available for web-push — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Web Push Denial of Service via malicious Web Push endpoint

Also known asCVE-2025-53604GHSA-287x-9rff-qvcgRUSTSEC-2025-0015
Published
Mar 24, 2025
Updated
Oct 28, 2025
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Sep 25, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-fc83-9jwq-gc2m.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs30th percentile — riskier than 30% of all scored CVEsHighest risk

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🦀web-push

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects crates.io packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

Prior to version 0.10.3, the built-in clients of the web-push crate eagerly allocated memory based on the Content-Length header returned by the Web Push endpoint. Malicious Web Push endpoints could return a large Content-Length without ever having to send as much data, leading to denial of service by memory exhaustion.

Services providing Web Push notifications typically allow the user to register an arbitrary endpoint, so the endpoint should not be trusted.

The fixed version 0.10.3 now limits the amount of memory it will allocate for each response, limits the amount of data it will read from the endpoint, and returns an error if the endpoint sends too much data.

As before, it is recommended that services add a timeout for each request to Web Push endpoints.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🦀crates.ioweb-pushall versions0.10.4cargo update -p web-push --precise 0.10.4

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for web-push, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update web-push to 0.10.4 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-fc83-9jwq-gc2m is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-fc83-9jwq-gc2m can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.

Tailored to GHSA-fc83-9jwq-gc2m. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Prior to version 0.10.3, the built-in clients of the `web-push` crate eagerly allocated memory based on the `Content-Length` header returned by the Web Push endpoint. Malicious Web Push endpoints could return a large `Content-Length` without ever having to send as much data, leading to denial of service by memory exhaustion. Services providing Web Push notifications typically allow the user to register an arbitrary endpoint, so the endpoint should not be trusted. The fixed version 0.10.3 now limits the amount of memory it will allocate for each response, limits the amount of data it will rea
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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