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{ "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/724858?format=api", "purl": "pkg:npm/ws@8.15.1", "type": "npm", "namespace": "", "name": "ws", "version": "8.15.1", "qualifiers": {}, "subpath": "", "is_vulnerable": true, "next_non_vulnerable_version": "8.17.1", "latest_non_vulnerable_version": "8.20.1", "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [ { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/45255?format=api", "vulnerability_id": "VCID-h7zx-ben4-tfhf", "summary": "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": [ { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-37890.json", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "5.9", "scoring_system": "cvssv3", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" } ], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-37890.json" }, { "reference_url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-37890", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "0.00541", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.68178", "published_at": "2026-06-14T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00541", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.68168", "published_at": "2026-06-12T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00541", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.68079", "published_at": "2026-06-11T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00541", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.68181", "published_at": "2026-06-13T12:55:00Z" } ], "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-37890" }, { "reference_url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-37890", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-37890" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "8.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv4", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" } ], "url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws" }, { "reference_url": "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074236", "reference_id": "1074236", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074236" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230", "reference_id": "2230", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "8.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv4", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" }, { "value": "Track", "scoring_system": "ssvc", "scoring_elements": "SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-18T13:25:45Z/" } ], "url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231", "reference_id": "2231", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "8.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv4", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" }, { "value": "Track", "scoring_system": "ssvc", "scoring_elements": "SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-18T13:25:45Z/" } ], "url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231" }, { "reference_url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292777", "reference_id": "2292777", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292777" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f", "reference_id": "22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "8.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv4", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" }, { "value": "Track", "scoring_system": "ssvc", "scoring_elements": "SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-18T13:25:45Z/" } ], "url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e", "reference_id": "4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "8.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv4", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" }, { "value": "Track", "scoring_system": "ssvc", "scoring_elements": "SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-18T13:25:45Z/" } ], "url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e" }, { "reference_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37890", "reference_id": "CVE-2024-37890", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37890" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c", "reference_id": "e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "8.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv4", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" }, { "value": "Track", "scoring_system": "ssvc", "scoring_elements": "SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-18T13:25:45Z/" } ], "url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63", "reference_id": "eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "8.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv4", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" }, { "value": "Track", "scoring_system": "ssvc", "scoring_elements": "SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-18T13:25:45Z/" } ], "url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q", "reference_id": "GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1_qr", "scoring_elements": "" } ], "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q" }, { "reference_url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q", "reference_id": "GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1_qr", "scoring_elements": "" }, { "value": "8.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv4", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" }, { "value": "HIGH", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" }, { "value": "Track", "scoring_system": "ssvc", "scoring_elements": "SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-18T13:25:45Z/" } ], "url": "https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q" }, { "reference_url": "https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#servermaxheaderscount", "reference_id": "http.html#servermaxheaderscount", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "7.5", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" }, { "value": "Track", "scoring_system": "ssvc", "scoring_elements": "SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-18T13:25:45Z/" } ], "url": "https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#servermaxheaderscount" }, { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4591", "reference_id": "RHSA-2024:4591", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4591" }, { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5547", "reference_id": "RHSA-2024:5547", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5547" }, { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6755", "reference_id": "RHSA-2024:6755", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6755" }, { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8544", "reference_id": "RHSA-2025:8544", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8544" }, { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8551", "reference_id": "RHSA-2025:8551", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8551" }, { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3710", "reference_id": "RHSA-2026:3710", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3710" }, { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3712", "reference_id": "RHSA-2026:3712", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3712" } ], "fixed_packages": [ { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/32212?format=api", "purl": "pkg:npm/ws@8.17.1", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:npm/ws@8.17.1" } ], "aliases": [ "CVE-2024-37890", "GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q" ], "risk_score": 4.0, "exploitability": "0.5", "weighted_severity": "8.0", "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-h7zx-ben4-tfhf" } ], "fixing_vulnerabilities": [], "risk_score": "4.0", "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:npm/ws@8.15.1" }