CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-15149

9.9 CRITICAL Published 2020-08-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-08-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269, CWE-287

Description

NodeBB before version 1.14.3 has a bug introduced in version 1.12.2 in the validation logic that makes it possible to change the password of any user on a running NodeBB forum by sending a specially crafted socket.io call to the server. This could lead to a privilege escalation event due via an account takeover. As a workaround you may cherry-pick the following commit from the project's repository to your running instance of NodeBB: 16cee1b03ba3eee177834a1fdac4aa8a12b39d2a. This is fixed in version 1.14.3.

Affected configurations

• nodebb nodebb (>= 1.12.2 < 1.14.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References