GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-j4f2-536g-r55m Resource exhaustion in engine.io

HIGH Published 2022-02-09 Modified 2025-05-29 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-36048
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
engine.io
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2021-04-06

Affected packages

• npm engine.io: < 3.6.0 → fixed in 3.6.0

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-36048 Engine.IO before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References