Vulnerabilites related to Socket.io - Socket.io-Parser
cve-2022-2421
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-25 00:00
Modified
2025-03-11 13:40
Severity ?
Summary
Due to improper type validation in attachment parsing the Socket.io js library, it is possible to overwrite the _placeholder object which allows an attacker to place references to functions at arbitrary places in the resulting query object.
References
https://csirt.divd.nl/CVE-2022-2421third-party-advisory
https://csirt.divd.nl/DIVD-2022-00045third-party-advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Socket.io Socket.io-Parser Version: 4.x   < 4.2.1
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