The Tungstenite crate through 0.20.0 for Rust allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (minutes of CPU consumption) via an excessive length of an HTTP header in a client handshake. The length affects both how many times a parse is attempted (e.g., thousands of times) and the average amount of data for each parse attempt (e.g., millions of bytes).
{
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-09-21T17:18:59Z",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"nvd_published_at": "2023-09-21T06:15:13Z",
"severity": "HIGH",
"github_reviewed": true
}