CVE-2018-1000518

Published Jun 26, 2018 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.8% KEV · Not listed
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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0146 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847 websockets is vulnerable to denial of service by memory exhaustion
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 12:40 PM
Reserved
May 19, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 26, 2018, 4:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:32 AM