CVE-2022-21676

HIGH

Socket Engine.io < 4.1.2 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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 starting from version `4.0.0`, including those who uses depending packages like `socket.io`. Versions prior to `4.0.0` are not impacted. A fix has been released for each major branch, namely `4.1.2` for the `4.x.x` branch, `5.2.1` for the `5.x.x` branch, and `6.1.1` for the `6.x.x` branch. There is no known workaround except upgrading to a safe version.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0411
EPSS Percentile 88.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-755 CWE-754
Status published
Products (2)
npm/engine.io 4.0.0 - 4.1.2npm
socket/engine.io 4.0.0 - 4.1.2
Published Jan 12, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026