Advisories for Npm/Engine.io package

A specially crafted HTTP request can trigger an uncaught exception on the Engine.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process. TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'handlesUpgrades') at Server.onWebSocket (build/server.js:515:67) This impacts all the users of the engine.io package, including those who uses depending packages like socket.io. A fix has been released today (2023/05/02): 6.4.2 This bug was introduced in version 5.1.0 and included in version 4.1.0 of the socket.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 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 …

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.

engine.iO allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling transport.