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CVE-2018-1000518
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-26T16:29:01.243 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:32:49.673

Summary

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.

Affected products

websockets_project — websockets

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References

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