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ws - Denial of Service

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
Jun 14, 2018

Description

This module exploits a Denial of Service vulnerability in npm module "ws".
By sending a specially crafted value of the Sec-WebSocket-Extensions header on the initial WebSocket upgrade request, the ws component will crash.

Authors

Ryan Knell, Sonatype Security Research
Nick Starke, Sonatype Security Research

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/ws_dos
    msf auxiliary(ws_dos) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(ws_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(ws_dos) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(ws_dos) > run
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