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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10518 (CVE-2016-10518)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2018-05-31 20:29 – Updated: 2025-09-08 16:43 – Source website

Details

A vulnerability was found in the ping functionality of the ws module before 1.0.0 which allowed clients to allocate memory by sending a ping frame. The ping functionality by default responds with a pong frame and the previously given payload of the ping frame. This is exactly what you expect, but internally ws always transforms all data that we need to send to a Buffer instance and that is where the vulnerability existed. ws didn't do any checks for the type of data it was sending. With buffers in node when you allocate it when a number instead of a string it will allocate the amount of bytes.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10518	REPORT
	https://gist.github.com/c0nrad/e92005446c480707a74a	REPORT
	https://github.com/websockets/ws/releases/tag/1.0.1	REPORT
	https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/67	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10518	REPORT

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CVE-2016-10518 (GCVE-0-2016-10518)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:57

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-201 - Information Exposure Through Sent Data (CWE-201)

Assigner

hackerone mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/websockets/ws/releases/tag/1.0.1	x_refsource_MISC
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/67	x_refsource_MISC
https://gist.github.com/c0nrad/e92005446c480707a74a	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	ws node module	Affected: <= 1.0.0

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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