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.
                
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References
        | Link | Providers | 
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| https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407 |     | 
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-06-26T16:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T12:40:47.112Z
Reserved: 2018-05-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-1000518
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2018-06-26T16:29:01.243
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:40:06.297
Link: CVE-2018-1000518
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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