ws affected by a DoS when handling a request with many HTTP headers

Description

A request with a number of headers exceeding the [server.maxHeadersCount][] threshold could be used to crash a ws server.

Recommendation

Update the ws package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): **>= 8.0.0, < 8.17.1

  >= 7.0.0, < 7.5.10

  >= 6.0.0, < 6.2.3

  >= 2.1.0, < 5.2.4**

• Patched version(s): **8.17.1

  7.5.10

  6.2.3

  5.2.4**

References

• GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q
• CVE-2024-37890
• CWE-476
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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