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CVE-2020-7662: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 2, 2020 (updated December 23, 2020)

websocket-extensions npm module 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.

References

  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7662

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.1.4

Fixed versions

  • 0.1.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.1.4 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Source file

npm/websocket-extensions/CVE-2020-7662.yml

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