Security Advisory
CVE-2018-1000518
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
June 26, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory