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CVE-2020-7663GHSA-G6WQ-QCWM-J5G2SNYK-RUBY-WEBSOCKETEXTENSIONS-570830

websocket-extensions ruby module prior to 0.1.5 allows Denial of Service (DoS) via Regex Backtracking.

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Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.1.5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a websocket-extensions (ruby)

    All versions prior to 0.1.5

  • websocket-extensionsRubyGems

    fixed in 0.1.5

References 6

GitHub · faye/websocket-extensions-ruby

blog.jcoglan.com

snyk.io

lists.debian.org

usn.ubuntu.com