CVE-2023-26103

high

Description

Versions of the package deno before 1.31.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to the upgradeWebSocket function, which contains regexes in the form of /s*,s*/, used for splitting the Connection/Upgrade header. A specially crafted Connection/Upgrade header can be used to significantly slow down a web socket server.

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUST-DENO-3315970

https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/tag/v1.31.0

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/17722

https://github.com/denoland/deno/commit/cf06a7c7e672880e1b38598fe445e2c50b4a9d06

https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/2b247be517d789a37e532849e2e40b724af0918f/ext/http/01_http.js%23L395-L409

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-02-25

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0056