High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27813
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-27813
Complete source record
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