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    CVE-2018-1000518

    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.

    Published:Jun 26, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jun 26, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.00155
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Websockets Project
    Product
    Websockets

    Exploits

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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High