QID 995366

Date Published: 2023-10-04

QID 995366: Rust (Rust) Security Update for tungstenite (GHSA-9mcr-873m-xcxp)

The Tungstenite crate through 0.20.0 for Rust allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (minutes of CPU consumption) via an excessive length of an HTTP header in a client handshake. The length affects both how many times a parse is attempted (e.g., thousands of times) and the average amount of data for each parse attempt (e.g., millions of bytes).

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.
  • Solution
    Refer to Github security advisory GHSA-9mcr-873m-xcxp for updates and patch information.
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