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CVE-2022-41940

CVE-2022-41940 · Uncaught exception in engine.io

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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.

CVSS 7.1 · High · EPSS 2.1% · Fix available

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Stack: node

Affected products and versions

  • engine.io

    Versions
    • < 3.6.1: Affected
    • >= 4.0.0, < 6.2.1: Affected

    No fix published

  • engine.io npm

    Affected ranges
    • SEMVER: < 3.6.1

    Update to 3.6.1

  • engine.io npm

    Affected ranges
    • SEMVER: ≥ 4.0.0, < 6.2.1

    Update to 6.2.1

Original sources

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