CVE-2018-1000518

aaugustin websockets version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients…

published June 26, 2018

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01833 · 78.7th percentile
Published
2018-06-26T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 JUN 16:00Z
    aaugustin websockets version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients…
    cvelistv5