CVE-2022-41940 — Uncaught exception in engine.io
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 u…
Published: 2022-11-22 · CVSS: 7.1 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7