CVE-2020-7663 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Project Websocket-extensions
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.4%
top 14.85%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 2
Latest updateSep 16
Description
websocket-extensions ruby module prior to 0.1.5 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.
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
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 20.04