CVE-2024-37890
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
ws affected by a DoS when handling a request with many HTTP headers
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 8.18.0+~cs13.7.11-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 8.18.0+~cs13.7.11-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 8.18.0+~cs13.7.11-1 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
References
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/2231
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63
- https://github.com/websockets/ws
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-37890
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q
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