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ws - Denial of Service

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Disclosed
01/01/1970
Created
06/14/2018

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 ResearchNick 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 /(s) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf /(s) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf /(s) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf /(s) > run
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