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CVE-2024-37890

HIGH

7.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published6/17/2024

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

References

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q(security-advisories@github.com)

https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#servermaxheaderscount(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#servermaxheaderscount(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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