GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/05/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9

Aliases

CVE-2023-32695

Published

2023-05-23T19:55:13Z

Modified

2024-11-18T16:26:29Z

Severity

7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Insufficient validation when decoding a Socket.IO packet

Details

Impact

A specially crafted Socket.IO packet can trigger an uncaught exception on the Socket.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process.

TypeError: Cannot convert object to primitive value
       at Socket.emit (node:events:507:25)
       at .../node_modules/socket.io/lib/socket.js:531:14

Patches

A fix has been released today (2023/05/22):

https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/commit/3b78117bf6ba7e99d7a5cfc1ba54d0477554a7f3, included in socket.io-parser@4.2.3
https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/commit/2dc3c92622dad113b8676be06f23b1ed46b02ced, included in socket.io-parser@3.4.3

Another fix has been released for the 3.3.x branch:

https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/commit/ee006607495eca4ec7262ad080dd3a91439a5ba4, included in `socket.io-parser@3.3.4

`socket.io` version	`socket.io-parser` version	Needs minor update?
`4.5.2...latest`	`~4.2.0` (ref)	`npm audit fix` should be sufficient
`4.1.3...4.5.1`	`~4.1.1` (ref)	Please upgrade to `socket.io@4.6.x`
`3.0.5...4.1.2`	`~4.0.3` (ref)	Please upgrade to `socket.io@4.6.x`
`3.0.0...3.0.4`	`~4.0.1` (ref)	Please upgrade to `socket.io@4.6.x`
`2.3.0...2.5.0`	`~3.4.0` (ref)	`npm audit fix` should be sufficient

Workarounds

There is no known workaround except upgrading to a safe version.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Open a discussion here

Thanks to @rafax00 for the responsible disclosure.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-20",
        "CWE-754"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2023-05-23T19:55:13Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2023-05-27T16:15:09Z",
    "severity":  "MODERATE"
}

References

Affected packages

npm / socket.io-parser

Package

Name: socket.io-parser; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/socket.io-parser

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

4.0.4

Fixed

4.2.3

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/05/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9.json"

npm / socket.io-parser

Package

Name: socket.io-parser; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/socket.io-parser

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

3.4.0

Fixed

3.4.3

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/05/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9.json"

npm / socket.io-parser

Package

Name: socket.io-parser; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/socket.io-parser

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.3.4

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/05/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9/GHSA-cqmj-92xf-r6r9.json"