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Tungstenite allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 21, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 16, 2024

Package

cargo tungstenite (Rust)

Affected versions

<= 0.20.0

Patched versions

0.20.1

Description

The Tungstenite crate through 0.20.0 for Rust allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (minutes of CPU consumption) via an excessive length of an HTTP header in a client handshake. The length affects both how many times a parse is attempted (e.g., thousands of times) and the average amount of data for each parse attempt (e.g., millions of bytes).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 21, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 21, 2023
Reviewed Sep 21, 2023
Last updated Feb 16, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.391%
(74th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-43669

GHSA ID

GHSA-9mcr-873m-xcxp

Source code

Credits

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