chore(deps): update dependency ws to 5.2.3 [security] #114
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This PR contains the following updates:
5.2.2
->5.2.3
GitHub Vulnerability Alerts
CVE-2021-32640
Impact
A specially crafted value of the
Sec-Websocket-Protocol
header can be used to significantly slow down a ws server.Proof of concept
Patches
The vulnerability was fixed in [email protected] (websockets/ws@00c425e) and backported to [email protected] (websockets/ws@78c676d) and [email protected] (websockets/ws@76d47c1).
Workarounds
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
and/or themaxHeaderSize
options.Credits
The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed along with a fix in private by Robert McLaughlin from University of California, Santa Barbara.
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