Description
ws is an open source WebSocket client and server library for Node.js. A specially crafted value of the `Sec-Websocket-Protocol` header can be used to significantly slow down a ws server. The vulnerability has been fixed in ws@7.4.6 (https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/00c425ec77993773d823f018f64a5c44e17023ff). In vulnerable versions of ws, the issue can be mitigated by reducing the maximum allowed length of the request headers using the [`--max-http-header-size=size`](https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_max_http_header_size_size) and/or the [`maxHeaderSize`](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_createserver_options_requestlistener) options.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/00c425ec77993773d823f018f64a5c44e17023ff
https://github.com/websockets/ws/security/advisories/GHSA-6fc8-4gx4-v693
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdfa7b6253c4d6271e31566ecd5f30b7ce1b8fb2c89d52b8c4e0f4e30%40%3Ccommits.tinkerpop.apache.org%3E
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210706-0005/
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