CVE-2026-44545: daphne: Unauthenticated attackers can cause excessive memory consumption by sending arbitrarily large WebSocket messages/frames

June 3, 2026 (updated July 11, 2026)

daphne before 4.2.2 did not pass maxFramePayloadSize or maxMessagePayloadSize to Autobahn’s WebSocketServerFactory. Because Autobahn defaults both values to 0 (unlimited), an unauthenticated remote attacker could send arbitrarily large WebSocket messages or frames, causing excessive memory consumption and a denial of service.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-rrc9-mx66-ffcm
github.com/django/daphne/blob/main/CHANGELOG.txt
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/daphne/PYSEC-2026-213.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44545

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