CVE-2020-7662

Summary

CVECVE-2020-7662
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-02 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-23 18:22:00 UTC
Descriptionwebsocket-extensions npm module prior to 0.1.4 allows Denial of Service (DoS) via Regex Backtracking. The extension parser may take quadratic time when parsing a header containing an unclosed string parameter value whose content is a repeating two-byte sequence of a backslash and some other character. This could be abused by an attacker to conduct Regex Denial Of Service (ReDoS) on a single-threaded server by providing a malicious payload with the Sec-WebSocket-Extensions header.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Websocket-extensions Project Websocket-extensions All All All All
Application Websocket-extensions Project Websocket-extensions All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ReDoS vulnerability in Sec-WebSocket-Extensions parser · Advisory · faye/websocket-extensions-node · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in websocket-extensions | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
ReDoS vulnerability in websocket-extensions – The If Works MISC blog.jcoglan.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Remove ReDoS vulnerability in the Sec-WebSocket-Extensions header parser · faye/websocket-extensions-node@29496f6 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 378599 Splunk Enterprise Third Party Package Updates for June (SVD-2023-0613)
  • 981483 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for websocket-extensions (GHSA-g78m-2chm-r7qv)
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