# socket.io has an unhandled 'error' event

Advisory record · `GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj` · `CVE-2024-38355`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.3 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-20](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html) · [CWE-754](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/754.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-20](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-20.md) · [CWE-754](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-754.md)
- **Published:** 19 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 24 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 19 Jun 2024, 15:04 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `socket.io` (npm): affected `<2.5.1 || >=3.0.0, <4.6.2`; fixed in `2.5.1`, `4.6.2`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.3 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0081, the 57th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 19 Jun 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj)
- [OSV: GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj)
- <https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/security/advisories/GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38355>
- <https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/15af22fc22bc6030fcead322c106f07640336115>
- <https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/d30630ba10562bf987f4d2b42440fc41a828119c>
- <https://github.com/socketio/socket.io>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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