Security Advisory

CVE-2018-1000518

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-06-26 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 12:40:47
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.