| Name | CVE-2024-37890 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1074236 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-ws (PTS) | buster | 1.1.0+ds1.e6ddaae4-5+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 7.4.2+~cs18.0.8-2 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm | 8.11.0+~cs13.7.3-1 | vulnerable | |
| sid, trixie | 8.11.0+~cs13.7.3-2 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| node-ws | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 1074236 |
[bookworm] - node-ws <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - node-ws <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - node-ws <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS)
https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q
https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230
https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c (8.17.1)
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f (7.5.10)
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63 (6.2.3)
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e (5.2.4)