CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-21035
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
In Qt through 5.14.1, the WebSocket implementation accepts up to 2GB for frames and 2GB for messages. Smaller limits cannot be configured. This makes it easier for attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
Affected configurations
• qt qt (<= 5.14.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70693 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwebsockets/+/284735 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70693 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwebsockets/+/284735 Patch, Third Party Advisory