Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-1000518
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 33.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
Products affected by CVE-2018-1000518
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cpe:2.3:a:websockets_project:websockets:4.0