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CVE-2024-37890 Detail

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 [email protected] (e55e510) and backported to [email protected] (22c2876), [email protected] (eeb76d3), and [email protected] (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 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f CVE, GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e CVE, GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c CVE, GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63 CVE, GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230 CVE, GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231 CVE, GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q CVE, GitHub, Inc.
https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#servermaxheaderscount CVE, GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-37890
NVD Published Date:
06/17/2024
NVD Last Modified:
06/17/2026
Source:
GitHub, Inc.