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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS00cWN2LXFmMzgtNWozas4AA04i

Unintentional leakage of private information via cross-origin websocket session hijacking

Impact

Private messages or posts might be leaked to third parties if victim opens the attackers site while browsing nodebb.

Patches

• Patched in v3.1.3
• Backported to v2.x line via v2.8.13

Workarounds

Users can cherry-pick https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/51096ad2345fb1d1380bec0a447113489ef6c359 if they are on v3.x

If you are running v2.x of NodeBB, you can cherry-pick a5d92da9ddac5607ab7f737520a66eaed6d3ddee followed by 62e162cf1e735e42462be1db9b4954b5a69accdf

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3j
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS00cWN2LXFmMzgtNWozas4AA04i
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: 9 months ago
Updated: 6 months ago

CVSS Score: 4.7
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3j, CVE-2023-2850
References:

• https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3j
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2850
• https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/51096ad2345fb1d1380bec0a447113489ef6c359
• https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/62e162cf1e735e42462be1db9b4954b5a69accdf
• https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/a5d92da9ddac5607ab7f737520a66eaed6d3ddee
• https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/releases/tag/v3.1.3
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3j

Repository: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
Blast Radius: 2.2

Affected Packages