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
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https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407 | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-06-26T16:00:00
Updated: 2018-06-26T15:57:01
Reserved: 2018-05-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-1000518
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-06-26T16:29:01.243
Modified: 2022-02-10T20:10:39.273
Link: CVE-2018-1000518
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE