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SCA: security update for engine.io (GHSA-q9mw-68c2-j6m5)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418023

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Engine.IO is the implementation of transport-based cross-browser/cross-device bi-directional communication
 layer for Socket.IO. An uncaught exception vulnerability was introduced in version 5.1.0 and included in
 version 4.1.0 of the `socket.io` parent package. Older versions are not impacted. 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 use depending packages like
 `socket.io`. This issue was fixed in version 6.4.2 of Engine.IO. There is no known workaround except
 upgrading to a safe version. (CVE-2023-31125)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q9mw-68c2-j6m5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418023

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-31125

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-31125

cwe: CWE-248