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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T12:40:47.112Z

Reserved: 2018-05-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-1000518

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-26T16:29:01.243

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:40:06.297

Link: CVE-2018-1000518

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