Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-30591 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Nodebb
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Denial-of-service in NodeBB <= v2.8.10 allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a crash, when invoking `eventName.startsWith()` or `eventName.toString()`, while processing Socket.IO messages via crafted Socket.IO messages containing array or object type for the event name respectively.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/37b48b82a4bc7680c6e4c42647209010cb239c2c
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/4d2d76897a02e7068ab74c81d17a2febfae8bfb9
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/830f142b7aea2e597294a84d52c05aab3a3539ca
- https://starlabs.sg/advisories/23/23-30591/
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/37b48b82a4bc7680c6e4c42647209010cb239c2c
- https://starlabs.sg/advisories/23/23-30591/
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/830f142b7aea2e597294a84d52c05aab3a3539ca
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/4d2d76897a02e7068ab74c81d17a2febfae8bfb9