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high 7.1

CVE-2022-41940 json

Uncaught exception in engine.io

published 3y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84w , EUVD-2022-7419

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • npm engine.io 3.6.1, 6.2.1
  • socket engine.io 3.6.1, 6.2.1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-41940 updated cvss 6.5

engine.io: Specially crafted HTTP request can trigger an uncaught exception

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 engine.io
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.12
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3954

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

2.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/security/advisories/GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84w referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm engine.io
<3.6.1
>=4.0.0, <6.2.1
3.6.1
6.2.1

Affected products

  • socketio engine.io

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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