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.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-ruby/security/advisories/GHSA-g6wq-qcwm-j5g2
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-ruby/commit/aa156a439da681361ed6f53f1a8131892418838b
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://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-WEBSOCKETEXTENSIONS-570830
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00031.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4502-1/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0242
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
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 (6)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
20.04
debian/debian_linux
9.0
rubygems/websocket-extensions
0 - 0.1.5RubyGems
websocket-extensions_project/websocket-extensions
< 0.1.5
Published
Jun 02, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026