CVE-2022-41940

HIGH

Engine.IO - DoS

Title source: llm

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, 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0206
EPSS Percentile 83.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-248
Status published

Affected Products (2)

socket/engine.io < 3.6.1
npm/engine.io < 3.6.1npm

Timeline

Published Nov 22, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026