Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-30591 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Nodebb

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
nodebb
CWE-754

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

Part Description Count
Application
Nodebb
300