Headline
GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3j: 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
Unintentional leakage of private information via cross-origin websocket session hijacking
Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 24, 2023 in NodeBB/NodeBB • Updated Jul 25, 2023
Related news
NodeBB is affected by a Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking vulnerability due to missing validation of the request origin. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows certain user information to be extracted by attacker.