What is GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7?

GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. DoS vulnerability for apps with sockets enabled

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7 cover?

GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2023-38504. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7?

GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7?

GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7 affects 1 product, including: npm/sails:\u003c 1.5.7.

GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7HighCVSS 7.5

DoS vulnerability for apps with sockets enabled

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 27, 2023

Last Modified

November 6, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-38504 →

📋 Description

Impact

In Sails apps <=v1.5.6, an attacker can send a virtual request that will cause the node process to crash.

Patches

This behavior was fixed in Sails v1.5.7

Workarounds

Disable the sockets hook and remove the sails.io.js client

References

https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/pull/7287

Big thanks to @ThomasRinsma at Codean!

🎯 Affected products1

npm/sails:< 1.5.7

🔗 References (6)

https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/security/advisories/GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/pull/7287
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/releases/tag/v1.5.7
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38504
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/commit/4a023dc5095a4b30fdc8535f705ed34cd22d2f7d
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7