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CVE-2016-10542

UNKNOWN
Published 2018-05-31T20:00:00Z
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Description

ws is a "simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested websocket client, server and console for node.js, up-to-date against RFC-6455". By sending an overly long websocket payload to a `ws` server, it is possible to crash the node process. This affects ws 1.1.0 and earlier.

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Affected Products

HackerOne

ws node module

Affected Versions:

<=1.1.0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

DoS due to excessively large websocket message in ws

GHSA-6663-c963-2gqg

Advisory Details

Affected versions of `ws` do not appropriately limit the size of incoming websocket payloads, which may result in a denial of service condition when the node process crashes after receiving a large payload. ## Recommendation Update to version 1.1.1 or later. Alternatively, set the `maxpayload` option for the `ws` server to a value smaller than 256MB.

Affected Packages

npm ws
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <1.1.1

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10542
WEB https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388
ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6663-c963-2gqg
WEB https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/120

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: February 18, 2019, Modified: August 31, 2020

References

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/120
Published: 2018-05-31T20:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T04:03:37.757Z
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