CVE-2022-41940: Uncaught Exception

November 22, 2022 (updated November 26, 2022)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84w
github.com/socketio/engine.io/security/advisories/GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84w

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