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Regular Expression Denial of Service in Deno.upgradeWebSocket API

Moderate
bartlomieju published GHSA-jc97-h3h9-7xh6 Mar 23, 2023

Package

Deno

Affected versions

1.12.0

Patched versions

1.31.0

Description

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

A specially crafted "Connection"/"Upgrade" header could have been used to significantly slow down web socket servers which used "Deno.upgradeWebSocket()" API.

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

It is recommended that users upgrade to Deno 1.31.0.

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVE ID

CVE-2023-26103

Weaknesses

Credits