CVE-2020-27813 (GCVE-0-2020-27813)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-02 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:25
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Summary
An integer overflow vulnerability exists with the length of websocket frames received via a websocket connection. An attacker would use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack on an HTTP Server allowing websocket connections.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a golang-github-gorilla-websocket Affected: github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.1
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