Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10542

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-05-31 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 04:03:37
Assigner hackerone
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

ws is a "simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested websocket client, server and console for node.js, up-to-date against RFC-6455". By sending an overly long websocket payload to a `ws` server, it is possible to crash the node process. This affects ws 1.1.0 and earlier.