CVE-2024-37890

HIGH

NPM WS < 5.2.4 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 67.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (5)
npm/ws 2.1.0 - 5.2.4npm
websockets/ws >= 2.1.0, < 5.2.4
websockets/ws >= 6.0.0, < 6.2.3
websockets/ws >= 7.0.0, < 7.5.10
websockets/ws >= 8.0.0, < 8.17.1
Published Jun 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026