VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-7663

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability4.64%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-06-02
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

websocket-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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references