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
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2020/06/02/redos-vulnerability-in-websocket-extensions
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-node/security/advisories/GHSA-g78m-2chm-r7qv
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-node/commit/29496f6838bfadfe5a2f85dff33ed0ba33873237
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WEBSOCKETEXTENSIONS-570623
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