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GHSA-J4F2-536G-R55M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-02-09 22:29 – Updated: 2025-05-29 23:06

Summary

Resource exhaustion in engine.io

Details

Engine.IO before 4.0.0 and 3.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling transport.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "id": "GHSA-j4f2-536g-r55m",
  "modified": "2025-05-29T23:06:32Z",
  "published": "2022-02-09T22:29:04Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Resource exhaustion in engine.io"
}

CVE-2020-36048 (GCVE-0-2020-36048)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-07 23:24 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:16

Summary

Engine.IO before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling transport.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

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	https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/734f…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://blog.caller.xyz/socketio-engineio-dos/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/bcaller/kill-engine-io	x_refsource_MISC

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GHSA-J4F2-536G-R55M

CVE-2020-36048 (GCVE-0-2020-36048)

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