CVE-2018-1000518

2018-06-2616:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

45.6%

JSON

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.