CVE-2021-32640

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 ws@7.4.6 (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.

Weakness classification

• security-advisories@github.com: CWE-400
• nvd@nist.gov: CWE-400

Primary references

• security-advisories@github.com — Patch, Third Party Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com — Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com
• security-advisories@github.com — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory