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GHSA-MP98-Q49W-JJHW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-09-29 06:30 – Updated: 2024-04-04 07:58

Details

Denial-of-service in NodeBB <= v2.8.10 allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a crash, when invoking eventName.startsWith() or eventName.toString(), while processing Socket.IO messages via crafted Socket.IO messages containing array or object type for the event name respectively.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-30591 (GCVE-0-2023-30591)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-29 05:06 – Updated: 2024-09-23 17:39

Title

NodeBB Pre-Authentication Denial-of-Service

Summary

Denial-of-service in NodeBB <= v2.8.10 allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a crash, when invoking `eventName.startsWith()` or `eventName.toString()`, while processing Socket.IO messages via crafted Socket.IO messages containing array or object type for the event name respectively.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-23 17:39 UTC

CWE

CWE-241 - Improper Handling of Unexpected Data Type

Assigner

STAR_Labs mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://starlabs.sg/advisories/23/23-30591/	third-party-advisory
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/37b48b82a…	patch
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/830f142b7…	patch
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/4d2d76897…	patch

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
NodeBB, Inc.	NodeBB	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.8.10 (semver)

Credits

Ngo Wei Lin (@Creastery) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd. (@starlabs_sg)

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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