GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3jMediumCVSS 4.7

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

Published
July 25, 2023
Last Modified
November 10, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-2850 →

📋 Description

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

🎯 Affected products2

  • npm/nodebb:>= 3.0.0, < 3.1.3
  • npm/nodebb:< 2.8.13

🔗 References (7)