cve-2022-41940
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-22 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 12:56
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Summary
Engine.IO is the implementation of transport-based cross-browser/cross-device bi-directional communication layer for Socket.IO. A specially crafted HTTP request can trigger an uncaught exception on the Engine.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process. This impacts all the users of the engine.io package, including those who uses depending packages like socket.io. There is no known workaround except upgrading to a safe version. There are patches for this issue released in versions 3.6.1 and 6.2.1.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/425e833ab13373edf1dd5a0706f07100db14e3c6Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/83c4071af871fc188298d7d591e95670bf9f9085Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/socketio/engine.io/security/advisories/GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84wExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/425e833ab13373edf1dd5a0706f07100db14e3c6Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/83c4071af871fc188298d7d591e95670bf9f9085Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/security/advisories/GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84wExploit, Third Party Advisory
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