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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-37890

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-37890 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12node-ws0, 8.11.0+~cs13.7.3-1, 8.11.0+~cs13.7.3-2
Debian:11node-ws0, 8.6.0, 8.8.0
Debian:14node-ws0, 0
Debian:13node-ws0, 0

Timeline

  • Jun 17, 2024 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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