Feathers socket handler allows abusing implicit toString (GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9)

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/socketio 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**

References

• GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9
• CVE-2023-37899
• CWE-754
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

@feathersjs/socketio