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SCA: security update for ws (GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409537

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - ws is an open source WebSocket client and server for Node.js. A request with a number of headers exceeding
 theserver.maxHeadersCount threshold could be used to crash a ws server. The vulnerability was fixed in
 [email protected] (e55e510) and backported to [email protected] (22c2876), [email protected] (eeb76d3), and [email protected] (4abd8f6). 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. (CVE-2024-37890)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409537

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-37890

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-37890

cwe: CWE-476