CVE-2018-1000518
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2018-1000518 |
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2018-06-26 16:29:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2022-02-10 20:10:00 UTC |
| 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. |
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|
| Security fix: defend against zip bombs. by aaugustin · Pull Request #407 · aaugustin/websockets · GitHub |
MISC |
github.com |
Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 754157 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for grpc, protobuf, python-Deprecated, python-PyGithub, python-aiocontextvars, python-avro, python-bcrypt, python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-google-api-core, pyt (SUSE-SU-2023:2783-1)
- 754878 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for grpc, protobuf, python-DEPRECATED, python-PyGithub, python-aiocontextvars, python-avro, python-bcrypt, python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-google-api-core, pyt (SUSE-SU-2023:2783-2)
- 981271 Python (pip) Security Update for websockets (GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847)