CVE-2020-7662

websocket-extensions npm module prior to 0.1.4 allows Denial of Service (DoS) via Regex Backtracking

published June 2, 2020

CVSS
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EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

websocket-extensions npm module prior to 0.1.4 allows Denial of Service (DoS) via Regex Backtracking. The extension parser may take quadratic time when parsing a header containing an unclosed string parameter value whose content is a repeating two-byte sequence of a backslash and some other character. This could be abused by an attacker to conduct Regex Denial Of Service (ReDoS) on a single-threaded server by providing a malicious payload with the Sec-WebSocket-Extensions header.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03088 · 87.6th percentile
Published
2020-06-02T18:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 JUN 18:28Z
    websocket-extensions npm module prior to 0.1.4 allows Denial of Service (DoS) via Regex Backtracking
    cvelistv5