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CVE-2026-59725: Socket.IO: Engine.IO Polling Transport Connection Exhaustion

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-08 · updated 2026-10-25
• Weakness: CWE-404

Description

Socket.IO enables bidirectional and low-latency communication for every platform. From 4.1.0 before 6.6.7, Engine.IO protocol v4 polling transport does not properly close the HTTP response for invalid binary POST requests with Content-Type: application/octet-stream, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust server-side connections and sockets. This issue is fixed in version 6.6.7.

Affected products

• socketio engine.io: from 4.1.0 before 6.6.7 — fixed in 6.6.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: socketio engine.io 6.6.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/fc11285e14964c2132d122164bf130c355f60671
• https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/releases/tag/engine.io@6.6.7
• https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/security/advisories/GHSA-r635-g3xr-vw7x

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