# engine.io (npm) vulnerabilities

7 known vulnerabilities (5 high, 1 medium), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: 6.6.11 (Sep 24, 2026): no advisory affects it
- Newest unaffected release: 6.6.11 (Sep 24, 2026), the latest release
- Weekly downloads: 25.2M
- Dependents: 16.2K
- Releases: 161 since 0.1.0 (Jul 3, 2012)
- Registry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/engine.io
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2026-102599: 6.6.0 to 6.6.9 (6.6.10 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-59725: 4.1.0 to 6.6.6 (6.6.7 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-59724: 6.5.0 to 6.6.6 (6.6.7 is outside it)
- CVE-2023-31125: 5.1.0 to 6.4.1 (6.4.2 is outside it)
- CVE-2022-41940: 0.1.0 to 3.6.0 (3.6.1 is outside it); 4.0.0 to 6.2.0 (6.2.1 is outside it)
- CVE-2022-21676: 4.0.0 to 4.1.1 (4.1.2 is outside it); 5.0.0 to 5.2.0 (5.2.1 is outside it); 6.0.0 to 6.1.0 (6.1.1 is outside it)
- CVE-2020-36048: 0.1.0 to 3.5.0 (3.6.0 is outside it)

## Advisories (7)

### [CVE-2026-102599](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-102599): Socket.IO: Engine.IO Protocol Revision Mismatch DoS

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Oct 13, 2026
- Affected: from 6.6.0, fixed in 6.6.10.
- Fixed in 6.6.10 (released Sep 3, 2026, 40 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 6.6.11, is not affected.
- 42% of engine.io downloads last week were affected versions (12M).

### [CVE-2026-59725](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-59725): Socket.IO: Engine.IO Polling Transport Connection Exhaustion

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Jul 8, 2026
- Affected: from 4.1.0, fixed in 6.6.7.
- Fixed in 6.6.7 (released Apr 27, 2026, 72 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 6.6.11, is not affected.
- 35% of engine.io downloads last week were affected versions (9.9M).

### [CVE-2026-59724](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-59724): Socket.IO: Engine.IO WebTransport SID DoS

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Jul 8, 2026
- Affected: from 6.5.0, fixed in 6.6.7.
- Fixed in 6.6.7 (released Apr 27, 2026, 72 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 6.6.11, is not affected.
- 32% of engine.io downloads last week were affected versions (9M).

### [CVE-2023-31125](https://cve.now/CVE-2023-31125): Uncaught exception in engine.io

- Severity: Medium 6.5
- Published: May 8, 2023
- Affected: from 5.1.0, fixed in 6.4.2.
- Fixed in 6.4.2 (released May 1, 2023, 7 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 6.6.11, is not affected.
- 2.1% of engine.io downloads last week were affected versions (596K).

### [CVE-2022-41940](https://cve.now/CVE-2022-41940): Uncaught exception in engine.io

- Severity: High 7.1
- Published: Nov 22, 2022
- Affected: fixed in 3.6.1; from 4.0.0, fixed in 6.2.1.
- Fixed in 3.6.1 (released Nov 20, 2022, 2 days before disclosure) and 6.2.1 (released Nov 20, 2022, 2 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 6.6.11, is not affected.
- 6.7% of engine.io downloads last week were affected versions (1.9M).

### [CVE-2022-21676](https://cve.now/CVE-2022-21676): Uncaught Exception in engine.io

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Jan 12, 2022
- Affected: from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.1.2; from 5.0.0, fixed in 5.2.1; from 6.0.0, fixed in 6.1.1.
- Fixed in 4.1.2 (released Jan 11, 2022, 1 day before disclosure), 5.2.1 (released Jan 11, 2022, 1 day before disclosure) and 6.1.1 (released Jan 11, 2022, 1 day before disclosure).
- The latest release, 6.6.11, is not affected.
- 0.4% of engine.io downloads last week were affected versions (113.7K).

### [CVE-2020-36048](https://cve.now/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…

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Jan 7, 2021
- Affected: fixed in 3.6.0.
- Fixed in 3.6.0 (released Jun 6, 2022, 515 days after disclosure).
- The latest release, 6.6.11, is not affected.
- 4.5% of engine.io downloads last week were affected versions (1.3M).

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