CVE-2024-38355
HIGHSocket.IO < 2.5.1 and 3.0.0-4.6.2 - Denial of Service via Crafted Packet
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2024-38355. PoCs published by PawelMurdzek.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains a functional Proof of Concept (PoC) for CVE-2024-38355, a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Socket.IO. The exploit demonstrates how a crafted Socket.IO packet can crash a vulnerable server by triggering an uncaught exception.
Description
Socket.IO is an open source, real-time, bidirectional, event-based, communication framework. A specially crafted Socket.IO packet can trigger an uncaught exception on the Socket.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process. This issue is fixed by commit `15af22fc22` which has been included in `[email protected]` (released in May 2023). The fix was backported in the 2.x branch as well with commit `d30630ba10`. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may attach a listener for the "error" event to catch these errors.
Exploits (1)
This repository contains a functional Proof of Concept (PoC) for CVE-2024-38355, a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Socket.IO. The exploit demonstrates how a crafted Socket.IO packet can crash a vulnerable server by triggering an uncaught exception.
References (4)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L