CVE-2022-41940
Published
CVSS v3
7.1
HIGH
CVSS v2
N/A
Affected
1
PROJECT
Description
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.
The engine used in the Socket.IO JavaScript server, which manages the low-level transports such as HTTP long-polling and WebSocket.
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