websocket-extensions npm module prior to 0.1.4 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.
CVE-2020-7662
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 3.0% (86th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 39EG Risk 39/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation3% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 3.0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 86th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
June 2, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (8)
- report@snykhttps://blog.jcoglan.com/2020/06/02/redos-vulnerability-in-websocket-extensions
- report@snykhttps://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-node/commit/29496f6838bfadfe5a2f85dff33ed0ba33873237
- report@snykhttps://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-node/security/advisories/GHSA-g78m-2chm-r7qv
- report@snykhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WEBSOCKETEXTENSIONS-570623
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.jcoglan.com/2020/06/02/redos-vulnerability-in-websocket-extensions
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-node/commit/29496f6838bfadfe5a2f85dff33ed0ba33873237
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-node/security/advisories/GHSA-g78m-2chm-r7qv
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WEBSOCKETEXTENSIONS-570623
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-7662(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2020:4298Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.1 image security update
- RHSA-2020:2861Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0 servicemesh-grafana security update
- RHSA-2020:2796Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh servicemesh-grafana security update
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | openshift4/ose-grafana:v4.6.0-202010061132.p0 | 2020-10-27 | redhat |
| redhat | servicemesh-grafana-0:6.2.2-38.el8 | 2020-07-07 | redhat |
| redhat | servicemesh-grafana-0:6.4.3-11.el8 | 2020-07-01 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| websocket-extensions | — |
| — |
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