CVE-2020-7663 Affecting ruby-websocket-extensions package, versions <0.1.5-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.64% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-RUBYWEBSOCKETEXTENSIONS-11767411
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed2 Jun 2020

Introduced: 2 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-7663  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 ruby-websocket-extensions to version 0.1.5-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-websocket-extensions package and not the ruby-websocket-extensions package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

websocket-extensions ruby module prior to 0.1.5 allows Denial of Service (DoS) via Regex Backtracking. The extension parser may take quadratic time when parsing a header containing an unclosed string parameter value whose content is a repeating two-byte sequence of a backslash and some other character. This could be abused by an attacker to conduct Regex Denial Of Service (ReDoS) on a single-threaded server by providing a malicious payload with the Sec-WebSocket-Extensions header.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1