GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3j

Unintentional leakage of private information via cross-origin websocket session hijacking

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2023-2850

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	nodebb	>= 3.0.0, < 3.1.3	3.1.3
npm	nodebb	< 2.8.13	2.8.13

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### 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

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3j web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2850 advisory
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/51096ad2345fb1d1380bec0a447113489ef6c359 web
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/62e162cf1e735e42462be1db9b4954b5a69accdf web
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/a5d92da9ddac5607ab7f737520a66eaed6d3ddee web
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB package
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/releases/tag/v3.1.3 web