CVE-2024-37890 (GCVE-0-2024-37890)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-17 19:09 – Updated: 2024-08-02 03:57
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Title
Denial of service when handling a request with many HTTP headers in ws
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
websockets ws Affected: >= 2.1.0, < 5.2.4
Affected: >= 6.0.0, < 6.2.3
Affected: >= 7.0.0, < 7.5.10
Affected: >= 8.0.0, < 8.17.1
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