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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Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics threat_severity

Important

threat_severity

Moderate


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-06-17T19:09:02.127Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:57:40.022Z

Reserved: 2024-06-10T19:54:41.360Z

Link: CVE-2024-37890

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-06-18T13:31:19.779Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-06-17T20:15:13.203

Modified: 2024-06-20T12:44:22.977

Link: CVE-2024-37890

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-06-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-37890 - Bugzilla