github - ghsa-j4f2-536g-r55m

ghsa-j4f2-536g-r55m

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-02-09 22:29

Modified

2025-05-29 23:06

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

Resource exhaustion in engine.io

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-j4f2-536g-r55m",
  "modified": "2025-05-29T23:06:32Z",
  "published": "2022-02-09T22:29:04Z",
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CVE-2020-36048 (GCVE-0-2020-36048)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-01-07 23:24

Modified

2024-08-04 17:16

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

Engine.IO before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling transport.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/734f9d1268840722c41219e69eb58318e0b2ac6b	x_refsource_MISC
	https://blog.caller.xyz/socketio-engineio-dos/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/bcaller/kill-engine-io	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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