CVE-2018-1000518

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000518
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1000518.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-1000518
Aliases
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Published
2018-06-26T16:29:01Z
Modified
2024-05-14T06:15:30.141163Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/aaugustin/websockets

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.0

2.*

2.0
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7

3.*

3.0
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4

4.*

4.0