CVE-2018-1000518

HIGH

7.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published6/26/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

websockets_project:websockets

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

References

https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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