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CVE-2020-36048

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Date: January 7, 2021

Engine.IO before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST request to the long polling transport.

Language: Java

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Related Resources (5)

https://github.com/bcaller/kill-engine-io
https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/commit/734f9d1268840722c41219e69eb58318e0b2ac6b
https://blog.caller.xyz/socketio-engineio-dos/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36048
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-36048

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV):
Access Complexity (AC):
Authentication (AU):
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH
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