# CVE-2024-38355: Unhandled 'error' event in socket.io

- Also known as: GHSA-25HC-QCG6-38WJ
- Severity: CVSS 7.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 2.5.1, 4.6.2
- Published: 2024-06-19 · Updated: 2024-09-03

## Affected

- socketio socket.io: fixed in 2.5.1; from 3.0.0, fixed in 4.6.2
- socket.io (npm): fixed in 2.5.1
- socket.io (npm): from 3.0.0, fixed in 4.6.2

## Description

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" event to catch these errors.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on socketio socket.io, socket.io, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.1, 4.6.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/security/advisories/GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj
- https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/15af22fc22bc6030fcead322c106f07640336115
- https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/d30630ba10562bf987f4d2b42440fc41a828119c
- https://github.com/PawelMurdzek/CVE-2024-38355-PoC

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