CVE-2022-41940

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-41940
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-11-22 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-26 03:26:00 UTC
DescriptionEngine.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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-248

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Socket Engine.io All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
fix: catch errors when destroying invalid upgrades · socketio/engine.io@83c4071 · GitHub MISC github.com
fix: catch errors when destroying invalid upgrades (#658) · socketio/engine.io@425e833 · GitHub MISC github.com
Uncaught exception in engine.io · Advisory · socketio/engine.io · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
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