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.
Published: 2018-06-26
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0146 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847 websockets is vulnerable to denial of service by memory exhaustion
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Websockets Project Websockets
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T12:40:47.112Z

Reserved: 2018-05-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-1000518

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-26T16:29:01.243

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:40:06.297

Link: CVE-2018-1000518

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