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CVE-2024-37890

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

Published: Jun 17, 2024Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-476
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.4%
Top 31.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected Products

ООО «Ред Софт»
commercial·RUaka red soft
РЕД ОСOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
OpenJS Foundation
oss-project·USaka ws, node-css-what, node-red
wsMixed
OSS Libraries / npm
АО «СберТех»
commercial·RUaka сбертех, ao sbertech
Platform V SberLinux OS ServerOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
websockets
commercial
wsMixed
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
npm
package-ecosystem
ws
OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
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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
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