Description
Due to improper type validation in attachment parsing the Socket.io js library, it is possible to overwrite the _placeholder object which allows an attacker to place references to functions at arbitrary places in the resulting query object.
Remediation
References
https://csirt.divd.nl/CVE-2022-2421
https://csirt.divd.nl/DIVD-2022-00045
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