Uncaught exception in engine.io

Impact

A specially crafted HTTP request can trigger an uncaught exception on the Engine.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process.

events.js:292
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: read ECONNRESET
    at TCP.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:209:20)
Emitted 'error' event on Socket instance at:
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:106:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:74:3)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21) {
  errno: -104,
  code: 'ECONNRESET',
  syscall: 'read'
}

This impacts all the users of the engine.io package, including those who uses depending packages like socket.io.

Patches

A fix has been released today (2022/11/20):

| Version range | Fixed version | |-------------------|---------------| | [email protected] | 3.6.1 | | [email protected] | 6.2.1 |

For socket.io users:

| Version range | engine.io version | Needs minor update? | |-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [email protected] | ~6.2.0 | npm audit fix should be sufficient | | [email protected] | ~6.1.0 | Please upgrade to [email protected] | | [email protected] | ~6.0.0 | Please upgrade to [email protected] | | [email protected] | ~5.2.0 | Please upgrade to [email protected] | | [email protected] | ~5.1.1 | Please upgrade to [email protected] | | [email protected] | ~5.0.0 | Please upgrade to [email protected] | | [email protected] | ~4.1.0 | Please upgrade to [email protected] (see here) | | [email protected] | ~4.0.0 | Please upgrade to [email protected] (see here) | | [email protected] | ~3.6.0 | npm audit fix should be sufficient | | [email protected] and below | ~3.5.0 | Please upgrade to [email protected] |

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 an issue in engine.io

Thanks to Jonathan Neve for the responsible disclosure.