GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/09/GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847/GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847
- Aliases
- Published
- 2018-09-17T20:46:52Z
- Modified
- 2023-11-01T04:48:37.349335Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- websockets is vulnerable to denial of service by memory exhaustion
- Details
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The Python websockets library 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 appears to be exploitable via sending a specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in version 5.0
- References
Affected packages
PyPI / websockets
Package
- Name
- websockets
- View open source insights on deps.dev
- Purl
- pkg:pypi/websockets