{ "data_type": "CVE", "data_format": "MITRE", "data_version": "4.0", "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2020-7663", "ASSIGNER": "report@snyk.io", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "n/a", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "websocket-extensions (ruby)", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "All versions prior to 0.1.5" } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-ruby/security/advisories/GHSA-g6wq-qcwm-j5g2", "url": "https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-ruby/security/advisories/GHSA-g6wq-qcwm-j5g2" }, { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-ruby/commit/aa156a439da681361ed6f53f1a8131892418838b", "url": "https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-ruby/commit/aa156a439da681361ed6f53f1a8131892418838b" }, { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://blog.jcoglan.com/2020/06/02/redos-vulnerability-in-websocket-extensions", "url": "https://blog.jcoglan.com/2020/06/02/redos-vulnerability-in-websocket-extensions" }, { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-WEBSOCKETEXTENSIONS-570830", "url": "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-WEBSOCKETEXTENSIONS-570830" }, { "refsource": "MLIST", "name": "[debian-lts-announce] 20200819 [SECURITY] [DLA 2334-1] ruby-websocket-extensions security update", "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00031.html" }, { "refsource": "UBUNTU", "name": "USN-4502-1", "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4502-1/" } ] }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] } }