CVE-2018-1000518

 

Published at: - 26-06-2018 06:29

Last modified: - 10-02-2022 09:10

Total changes: - 3

Description

aaugustin websockets version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients, unless configured with compression=None that can result in Denial of Service by memory exhaustion. This attack appear to be exploitable via Sending a specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

 

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Reference

• https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407

 

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