CVE-2016-10542

HIGH7.5EPSS 66.1%

DoS due to excessively large websocket message in ws

Published: 2/18/2019Modified: 11/8/2023

Also known as:GHSA-6663-c963-2gqgDEBIAN-CVE-2016-10542

Description

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 (2)

Debian/node-wsfrom 0, < 1.1.0+ds1.e6ddaae4-5
npm/wsfrom 0, < 1.1.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (5)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6663-c963-2gqg
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10542
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10542
WEBhttps://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388
WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/120