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
Link Resource
https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407 Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon 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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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2022-02-10T20:10:39.273


Link: CVE-2018-1000518

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