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SCA: security update for engine.io (GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84w)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418573

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, 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. (CVE-2022-41940)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r7qp-cfhv-p84w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418573

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41940

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41940

cwe: CWE-248