CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-37890
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2024-06-17
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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 [email protected] (e55e510) and backported to [email protected] (22c2876), [email protected] (eeb76d3), and [email protected] (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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63 github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230 github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231 github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q github.com
- https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#servermaxheaderscount nodejs.org
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63 github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230 github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231 github.com
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q github.com
- https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#servermaxheaderscount nodejs.org