CVE-2018-1000518

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
Downstream
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Published
2018-06-26T16:29:01Z
Modified
2026-08-27T08:13:44Z
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/python-websockets/websockets

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python-websockets/websockets
Events
Introduced
93c7bc1446f1f9e99b0919dceacf84fd92832811
Last Affected
93c7bc1446f1f9e99b0919dceacf84fd92832811
Database specific
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{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:websockets_project:websockets:4.0:*:*:*:*:python:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "4.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1000518.json"