CVE-2020-7663

Summary

CVECVE-2020-7663
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-02 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-01-20 18:22:00 UTC
Descriptionwebsocket-extensions ruby module prior to 0.1.5 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
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Websocket-extensions Project Websocket-extensions All All All All
Application Websocket-extensions Project Websocket-extensions All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4502-1: websocket-extensions vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
ReDoS vulnerability in Sec-WebSocket-Extensions parser · Advisory · faye/websocket-extensions-ruby · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in websocket-extensions | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2334-1] ruby-websocket-extensions security update MLIST lists.debian.org
ReDoS vulnerability in websocket-extensions – The If Works MISC blog.jcoglan.com Third Party Advisory
Remove ReDoS vulnerability in the Sec-WebSocket-Extensions header parser · faye/websocket-extensions-ruby@aa156a4 · 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

  • 238742 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.8 release (RHSA-2020:4366)
  • 753556 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for rubygem-websocket-extensions (SUSE-SU-2023:0127-1)
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