Bump ws from 8.17.0 to 8.17.1 in /public/app/themes/justice

[dependabot[bot]]

Bumps ws from 8.17.0 to 8.17.1.

Release notes

Sourced from ws's releases.

8.17.1

Bug fixes

• Fixed a DoS vulnerability (#2231).

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

const http = require('http');
const WebSocket = require('ws');
const wss = new WebSocket.Server({ port: 0 }, function () {
const chars = "!#$%&'*+-.0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz^_`|~".split('');
const headers = {};
let count = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
if (count === 2000) break;
for (let j = 0; j &lt; chars.length; j++) {
  const key = chars[i] + chars[j];
  headers[key] = 'x';

  if (++count === 2000) break;
}

}
headers.Connection = 'Upgrade';
headers.Upgrade = 'websocket';
headers['Sec-WebSocket-Key'] = 'dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==';
headers['Sec-WebSocket-Version'] = '13';
const request = http.request({
headers: headers,
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: wss.address().port
});
request.end();
});

The vulnerability was reported by Ryan LaPointe in websockets/ws#2230.

In vulnerable versions of ws, the issue can be mitigated in the following ways:

1. Reduce the maximum allowed length of the request headers using the [--max-http-header-size=size][] and/or the [maxHeaderSize][] options so that no more headers than the server.maxHeadersCount limit can be sent.

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Commits

• 3c56601 [dist] 8.17.1
• e55e510 [security] Fix crash when the Upgrade header cannot be read (#2231)
• 6a00029 [test] Increase code coverage
• ddfe4a8 [perf] Reduce the amount of crypto.randomFillSync() calls
• See full diff in compare view

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[wilson1000]

Just a quick one @EarthlingDavey... do we need Dependabot to check our packages? My thinking leads me to believe no code is ever present on the stacks; we only use npm to build our assets out and then discard the JS compiling scripts.

Is there a scenario where there could be a threat?

[EarthlingDavey]

Hey, you're right in thinking we don't run any JS code on our servers. While I think that would be the biggest attack surface there might be a couple of others to consider.

• Running the asset build pipeline locally (potential to escape the container).
• Running in CI (potential to escape container and exfiltrate secrets).
• Running the compiled JS in admin/editor/visitor browsers.

New versions of node have a permission model that would help protect against the first 2 points. Could we add that to our backlog?