CVE-2024-378907.5HighCWE-476

CVE-2024-37890: Denial of service when handling a request with many HTTP headers in ws

websockets · ws

Affected: websockets ws · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

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1.4%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

72nd percentile

050100

Higher than 72% of scored CVEs

7.5HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

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 products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

websockets · ws>= 2.1.0, < 5.2.4; >= 6.0.0, < 6.2.3; >= 7.0.0, < 7.5.10; >= 8.0.0, < 8.17.1

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: NULL Pointer Dereference · Memory Corruption
Vendor: websockets
Published: June 2024
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), June 2024

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