PT-2018-4721 · Ws · Ws

Alchemystic · Published 2018-05-31 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2016-10542

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ws versions 1.1.0 and earlier

Description The issue allows an attacker to crash the node process by sending an overly long websocket payload to a ws server. This is due to the affected versions of ws not appropriately limiting the size of incoming websocket payloads, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Recommendations Update to version 1.1.1 or later. Alternatively, set the maxpayload option for the ws server to a value smaller than 256MB.

Fix

RCE

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10542

GHSA-6663-C963-2GQG

Affected Products

Ws

References · 12

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10542 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6663-c963-2gqg · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10542 · Security Note
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6663-c963-2gqg · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/120 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/120 · Note