CVE-2018-1000518

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000518
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1000518.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-1000518
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-06-26T16:29:01.243Z
Modified
2026-04-11T17:13:55.621026Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python-websockets/websockets

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python-websockets/websockets
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
93c7bc1446f1f9e99b0919dceacf84fd92832811
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:websockets_project:websockets:4.0:*:*:*:*:python:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.0
2.*
2.0
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
3.*
3.0
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
4.*
4.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1000518.json"