CVE-2021-32640

MEDIUM

WS < 6.2.2 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

ws is an open source WebSocket client and server library for Node.js. A specially crafted value of the `Sec-Websocket-Protocol` header can be used to significantly slow down a ws server. The vulnerability has been fixed in [email protected] (https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/00c425ec77993773d823f018f64a5c44e17023ff). In vulnerable versions of ws, the issue can be mitigated by reducing the maximum allowed length of the request headers using the [`--max-http-header-size=size`](https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_max_http_header_size_size) and/or the [`maxHeaderSize`](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_createserver_options_requestlistener) options.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0045
EPSS Percentile 63.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (3)
netapp/e-series_performance_analyzer
npm/ws 7.0.0 - 7.4.6npm
ws_project/ws 5.0.0 - 6.2.2
Published May 25, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026