# Feathers socket handler allows abusing implicit toString

Advisory record · `GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9` · `CVE-2023-37899`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-754](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/754.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-754](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-754.md)
- **Published:** 20 Jul 2023
- **Updated:** 8 Nov 2023
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 20 Jul 2023, 14:54 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `@feathersjs/socketio` (npm): affected `<4.5.18 || >=5.0.0, <5.0.8`; fixed in `4.5.18`, `5.0.8`
- `@feathersjs/transport-commons` (npm): affected `<4.5.18 || >=5.0.0, <5.0.8`; fixed in `4.5.18`, `5.0.8`

## 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

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

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.012, the 68th percentile, on 8 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 20 Jul 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9)
- [OSV: GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9)
- <https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers/security/advisories/GHSA-hhr9-rh25-hvf9>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-37899>
- <https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers/pull/3241>
- <https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers/pull/3242>
- <https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers/commit/0b9a6b19b12ad05934e4c8bd9917448ed39d1ed8>
- <https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers/commit/c397ab3a0cd184044ae4f73540549b30a396821c>
- <https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers>
- <https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers/blob/crow/CHANGELOG.md#4518-2023-07-19>
- <https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers/blob/dove/CHANGELOG.md#508-2023-07-19>

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-hhr9-rh25-hvf9>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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