What is GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675?

GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. NodeBB vulnerable to account takeover via prototype vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675 cover?

GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2022-46164. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675?

GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.4, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675?

GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675 affects 1 product, including: npm/nodebb:\u003c 2.6.1.

GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675CriticalCVSS 9.4

NodeBB vulnerable to account takeover via prototype vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

December 5, 2022

Last Modified

January 31, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-46164 →

📋 Description

Impact

Due to a plain object with a prototype being used in socket.io message handling a specially crafted payload can be used to impersonate other users and takeover accounts.

Patches

Patched in 2.6.1

Workarounds

Site maintainers can cherry-pick https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/48d143921753914da45926cca6370a92ed0c46b8 into their codebase to patch the exploit.

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🎯 Affected products1

npm/nodebb:< 2.6.1

🔗 References (5)

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46164
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/48d143921753914da45926cca6370a92ed0c46b8
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/releases/tag/v2.6.1
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675