CVE-2020-7662

HIGH

Websocket-extensions < 0.1.4 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

websocket-extensions npm module prior to 0.1.4 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 (4)

Core 4

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0030
EPSS Percentile 53.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (2)
npm/websocket-extensions 0 - 0.1.4npm
websocket-extensions_project/websocket-extensions < 0.1.4
Published Jun 02, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026