CVE-2020-7663

HIGH

Websocket-extensions < 0.1.5 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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
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