GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675

NodeBB vulnerable to account takeover via prototype vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2022-46164

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	nodebb	< 2.6.1	2.6.1

Details

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

### Impact 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. ### Patches Patched in 2.6.1 ### Workarounds Site maintainers can cherry-pick https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/48d143921753914da45926cca6370a92ed0c46b8 into their codebase to patch the exploit. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Discuss it on [our community forum](https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/community.nodebb.org/) Email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

References

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

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/GHSA-rf3g-v8p5-p675 web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46164 advisory
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/48d143921753914da45926cca6370a92ed0c46b8 web
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB package
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/releases/tag/v2.6.1 web