CVE-2022-41940 - Denial of Service (DoS)

Abstract

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 6.2.1.

The Oxygen products incorporate Engine.IO as a third-party library. This advisory was opened to address the potential impact of this third-party library vulnerability.

Affected Products/Versions

Mitigation

None

Detail

CVE-2022-41940

Severity: High

CVSS Score: 7.1

The Engine.IO third-party library used by Oxygen XML products is an affected version mentioned in CVE-2022-41940 vulnerability description.