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Security checkNovember 07, 2023

Feathers socket handler allows abusing implicit toString

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High severitynpm@feathersjs/transport-commons

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Description

Feathers socket handler did not catch invalid string conversion errors like:

Causing the NodeJS process to crash when sending an unexpected Socket.io message like

Recommendation

Update the @feathersjs/transport-commons package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): **>= 5.0.0, <= 5.0.7 <= 4.5.17**
  • Patched version(s): **5.0.8 4.5.18**

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