cve-2022-2421
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-25 00:00
Modified
2025-03-11 13:40
Severity ?
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
csirt@divd.nlhttps://csirt.divd.nl/CVE-2022-2421Third Party Advisory
csirt@divd.nlhttps://csirt.divd.nl/DIVD-2022-00045Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://csirt.divd.nl/CVE-2022-2421Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://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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