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GitHub, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

GitHub, Inc. CWE-20

GitHub, Inc. CWE-754

Socket.IO is an open source, real-time, bidirectional, event-based, communication framework. A specially crafted Socket.IO packet can trigger an uncaught exception on the Socket.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process. This issue is fixed by commit `15af22fc22` which has been included in `socket.io@4.6.2` (released in May 2023). The fix was backported in the 2.x branch as well with commit `d30630ba10`. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may attach a listener for the "error

GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/15af22fc22bc6030fcead322c106f07640336115 [No types assigned]

GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/d30630ba10562bf987f4d2b42440fc41a828119c [No types assigned]

GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/security/advisories/GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj [No types assigned]