vulnerability / NVI-00013019 / Revision 2
Socket.IO: Engine.IO Protocol Revision Mismatch DoS
GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for engine.io. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.
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01 / Meaning
Why it matters
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7.5 high
GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.
As of · GitHub Advisory Database
7.5 HIGH (3.1)
security-advisories@github.com severity; no combined Null risk score.
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
engine.io
source listed>= 6.6.0, < 6.6.10
### Impact A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Engine.IO / Socket.IO servers that allow transport upgrades. The Engine.IO protocol revision is negotiated during the initial handshake and stored on the session, but a newly-created transport, including a WebSocket upgrade transport, could independently derive a different protocol revision from the upgrade request query parameters. The server did not verify that the protocol revision of an upgrade request matched the protocol revision of the existing session. A malicious client could exploit this mismatch by establishing a valid Engine.IO session and then sending an upgrade request with a different, or omitted, `EIO` query parameter. This could cause the server to attach a transport using a parser and heartbeat behavior inconsistent with the session. Under some conditions, a crafted heartbeat packet could trigger an uncaught exception and terminate the Node.js process. Servers using the default Engine.IO v4 protocol are impacted. The issue can be triggered even when Engine.IO v3 compatibility is disabled, because an omitted `EIO` parameter is interpreted as protocol v3 on the affected transport path. The impact is **denia
03 / Response
What to do next
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What this report cannot establish
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05 / Provenance
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- GHSA-2gc4-cqfq-p2gv ↗
GitHub Advisory Database · vendor advisory
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- CVE-2026-102599 ↗
NIST National Vulnerability Database · official catalog
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Public revision history
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- Revision 2 ·
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- Revision 1 ·
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