cve/2018/CVE-2018-1000518.md

CVE-2018-1000518

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.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/PalindromeLabs/awesome-websocket-security