vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6208-1 (CVE-2020-27813): Gorilla WebSocket vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 2, 2020
Added
Jul 7, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-golang-websocket-dev
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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