BREW-UVICORN-CVE-2018-1000518 (GHSA-6G87-FF9Q-V847)
Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:46 – Updated: 2026-09-16 10:41 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
websockets is vulnerable to denial of service by memory exhaustion
Details
The Python websockets library version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients, unless configured with compression=None that can result in Denial of Service by memory exhaustion. This attack appears to be exploitable via sending a specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in version 5.0
Severity
References
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"fix": "bump",
"range_state": "fixed",
"resource": "websockets",
"resource_purl": "pkg:pypi/websockets@17.1",
"upstream_fixed_in": "5.0"
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Homebrew",
"name": "uvicorn",
"purl": "pkg:brew/uvicorn"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.52.1"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"database_specific": {
"confidence": "high",
"source": "matched",
"strategy": "registry",
"upstream_evidence": [
{
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"key": "pkg:pypi/websockets@17.1",
"name": "websockets",
"resource": "websockets",
"strategy": "registry",
"subject_version": "17.1"
}
]
},
"details": "The Python websockets library version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients, unless configured with compression=None that can result in Denial of Service by memory exhaustion. This attack appears to be exploitable via sending a specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in version 5.0",
"id": "BREW-uvicorn-CVE-2018-1000518",
"modified": "2026-09-16T10:41:43Z",
"published": "2026-08-13T17:46:24Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000518"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/websockets/PYSEC-2018-79.yaml"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.7.3",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "websockets is vulnerable to denial of service by memory exhaustion",
"upstream": [
"GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847",
"CVE-2018-1000518",
"PYSEC-2018-79"
]
}
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