engine.io Uncaught Exception vulnerability

Description

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.

Recommendation

Update the engine.io package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 5.1.0, < 6.4.2
• Patched version(s): 6.4.2

References

• GHSA-q9mw-68c2-j6m5
• security.netapp.com
• CVE-2023-31125
• CWE-248
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Uncaught Exception in engine.io - engine.io - CVE-2022-21676
• Uncaught exception in engine.io - CVE-2022-41940
• Uncaught Exception in yaml - CVE-2023-2251
• Resource exhaustion in engine.io - CVE-2020-36048

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Tags:

npm

engine.io