CVE-2024-37890

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
websocketsws>= 2.1.0, < 5.2.4affected
websocketsws>= 6.0.0, < 6.2.3affected
websocketsws>= 7.0.0, < 7.5.10affected
websocketsws>= 8.0.0, < 8.17.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-476: CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

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