CVE-2020-35896Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Project Ws-rs

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 31
Latest updateAug 25

Description

An issue was discovered in the ws crate through 2020-09-25 for Rust. The outgoing buffer is not properly limited, leading to a remote memory-consumption attack.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

crates.iows_project/ws0.9.1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
Insufficient size checks in ws2021-08-25
GHSA
Insufficient size checks in ws2021-08-25
OSV
Insufficient size checks in outgoing buffer in ws allows remote attacker to run the process out of memory2020-09-25