VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-1000518

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.83%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-06-26
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-400

Primary references