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CVE-2022-41940 (GCVE-0-2022-41940)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-22 16:02
VLAI
Title
Uncaught exception in engine.io
Summary
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.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-22 15:41 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
socketio engine.io Affected: < 3.6.1
Affected: >= 4.0.0, < 6.2.1
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