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SCA: security update for engine.io (GHSA-273r-mgr4-v34f)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 408753

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. 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 starting
 from version `4.0.0`, including those who uses depending packages like `socket.io`. Versions prior to
 `4.0.0` are not impacted. A fix has been released for each major branch, namely `4.1.2` for the `4.x.x`
 branch, `5.2.1` for the `5.x.x` branch, and `6.1.1` for the `6.x.x` branch. There is no known workaround
 except upgrading to a safe version. (CVE-2022-21676)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-273r-mgr4-v34f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 408753

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 1/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21676