CVE-2020-36048
Resource exhaustion in engine.io
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.50%
Description
Engine.IO before 4.0.0 and 3.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling transport.
How to fix CVE-2020-36048
To remediate CVE-2020-36048, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- npm/engine.io—upgrade to 3.6.0 or later
Is CVE-2020-36048 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 3.6.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |