CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-46164

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2022-12-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-12-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.4 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-665

Description

NodeBB is an open source Node.js based forum software. 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. This vulnerability has been patched in version 2.6.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may cherry-pick commit `48d143921753914da45926cca6370a92ed0c46b8` into their codebase to patch the exploit.

Affected configurations

• nodebb nodebb (< 2.6.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

References