CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2022-41940

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.

6.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/83c4071af871fc188298d7d591e95670bf9f9085 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/425e833ab13373edf1dd5a0706f07100db14e3c6 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/security/advisories/GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84w Exploit Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:socket:engine.io:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:socket:engine.io:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
Information

Published : 2022-11-22 01:15

Updated : 2022-11-26 03:26

NVD link : CVE-2022-41940

Mitre link : CVE-2022-41940

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-248

Uncaught Exception