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Vulnerability CVE-2018-1000518
Published: 2018-06-26
| 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. |
Type:
CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
5/10 |
2.9/10 |
10/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Remote |
Low |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
None |
Partial |
References: |
https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407
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