aaugustin/websockets · Security
websockets is vulnerable to denial of service by memory exhaustion
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847
- CVE ID
- CVE-2018-1000518
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
The Python websockets library 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 appears to be exploitable via sending a specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in version 5.0
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption