Advisories for Npm/Uws package

2020

Improper Input Validation

uws is a WebSocket server library. By sending a 256mb websocket message to a uws server instance with permessage-deflate enabled, there is a possibility used compression will shrink said 256mb down to less than 16mb of websocket payload which passes the length check of 16mb payload. This data will then inflate up to 256mb and crash the node process by exceeding V8's maximum string size. This affects uws >=0.10.0 <=0.10.8.

2016

Denial of Service

By sending a Mb websocket message to a uws server instance, it is possible to crash the node process by exceeding V8's maximum string size.