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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2024-37890

Denial of service when handling a request with many HTTP headers in ws

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Published
Updated
Assigning organization
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Description

ws is an open source WebSocket client and server for Node.js. A request with a number of headers exceeding theserver.maxHeadersCount threshold could be used to crash a ws server. The vulnerability was fixed in ws@8.17.1 (e55e510) and backported to ws@7.5.10 (22c2876), ws@6.2.3 (eeb76d3), and ws@5.2.4 (4abd8f6). In vulnerable versions of ws, the issue can be mitigated in the following ways: 1. Reduce the maximum allowed length of the request headers using the --max-http-header-size=size and/or the maxHeaderSize options so that no more headers than the server.maxHeadersCount limit can be sent. 2. Set server.maxHeadersCount to 0 so that no limit is applied.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

websockets ws

  • >= 2.1.0, < 5.2.4affected
  • >= 6.0.0, < 6.2.3affected
  • >= 7.0.0, < 7.5.10affected
  • >= 8.0.0, < 8.17.1affected

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