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CVE-2018-1000518

PoC —
CVSS 3.1
7.5 high
EPSS
2%p78
Published
()
Modified
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.

Vendors
websockets project
Products
websockets
Weakness
CWE-400
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.8%)

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