socketio/engine.io · Security
Resource exhaustion in engine.io
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-j4f2-536g-r55m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-36048
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Engine.IO before 4.0.0 and 3.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling transport.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36048 ↗
- https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/734f9d1268840722c41219e69eb58318e0b2ac6b ↗
- https://github.com/bcaller/kill-engine-io ↗
- https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/58e274c437e9cbcf69fd913c813aad8fbd253703 ↗
- https://blog.caller.xyz/socketio-engineio-dos ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j4f2-536g-r55m ↗