HIGH7.5

GHSA-xfhh-g9f5-x4m4

Resource exhaustion in socket.io-parser

Quick fix

GHSA-xfhh-g9f5-x4m4 — socket.io-parser: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install socket.io-parser@3.3.2

Details

The `socket.io-parser` npm package before versions 3.3.2 and 3.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large packet because a concatenation approach is used.

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Affected packages

npm/socket.io-parser

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.3.2

Fixnpm install socket.io-parser@3.3.2

npm/socket.io-parser

Introduced in: 3.4.0Fixed in: 3.4.1

Fixnpm install socket.io-parser@3.4.1

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36049[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/commit/dcb942d24db97162ad16a67c2a0cf30875342d55[WEB]
https://blog.caller.xyz/socketio-engineio-dos[WEB]
https://github.com/bcaller/kill-engine-io[WEB]
https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/releases/tag/3.3.2[WEB]
https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/releases/tag/3.4.1[WEB]
https://www.npmjs.com/package/socket.io-parser[WEB]