UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37890
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-37890
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2024/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37890.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37890
- Upstream
- Published
- 2024-06-17T20:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-14T07:02:09.823404Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Ubuntu - medium
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
-
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-37890
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37890
- 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
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e
- https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#servermaxheaderscount
Affected packages
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / node-ws
Package
- Name
- node-ws
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-ws@1.0.1+ds1.e6ddaae4-1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / node-ws
Package
- Name
- node-ws
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-ws@1.1.0+ds1.e6ddaae4-3ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS / node-ws
Package
- Name
- node-ws
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-ws@7.2.1-3?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / node-ws
Package
- Name
- node-ws
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-ws@8.5.0+~cs13.3.3-2?arch=source&distro=jammy
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / node-ws
Package
- Name
- node-ws
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-ws@8.11.0+~cs13.7.3-2?arch=source&distro=noble