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CVE-2020-36048

Engine.IO before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling transport.

No known exploitation. EPSS puts it in the 88th percentile. Fixed versions are out.

CVSS 3.17.5HighEPSS percentile88th3.3% chance in 30 daysCISA KEVNot listedNo confirmed exploitation
No public exploit knownFix2 products2 fixed builds listed below

Published Updated Sources: CVE.org, NVD, GitHub

NVD CVE.org

What to do

Find your product and version, then upgrade to the build on the right.

  • Npm Engine.ioAffected: < 3.6.0Upgrade to: 3.6.0Stated by: GitHub advisory
  • Socket Engine.ioAffected: < 4.0.0Upgrade to: 4.0.0Stated by: NVD

Versions as the sources state them. Full version matrix after sign-in

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What it is

From the CVE record

Resource exhaustion in engine.io

In plain language

No plain-language summary for this CVE yet.

Exploitation

Where each signal puts this CVE on the scale from published to confirmed exploited.

EPSS88th
CISA KEV

Not in the catalog. CISA has not confirmed exploitation.

Public exploits

No public exploit or proof of concept found in the sources we track.

EPSS

3.3% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the 88th percentile of scored CVEs.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.org. A probability, not a confirmation.

Lifecycle

5 events over 1414 days, from the signal feeds we watch.

  1. Patch availablerecord updated
  2. Publishedweakness classified, att&ck mapped

Affected products

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Technical detail

CVSS 3.1 vector

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Scored 7.5 by NVD.

How it is reached

  • Attack Vector NetworkExploitable remotely over the network without any special conditions
  • Attack Complexity LowNo special conditions — the attack can be reliably reproduced
  • Privileges Required NoneNo authentication required — anyone can exploit this
  • User Interaction NoneNo user interaction needed — fully automated exploitation

Scope

  • Scope UnchangedImpact is limited to the vulnerable component itself

Impact if exploited

  • Confidentiality NoneNo confidentiality impact
  • Integrity NoneNo integrity impact
  • Availability HighTotal denial of service — the component is completely unavailable

Weaknesses

ATT&CK techniques

Mapped from the weaknesses above (CWE to ATT&CK), not observed in attacks.

Sources

References in the record

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