GHSA-xmgg-fx9p-prq6
NodeBB account takeover via SSO plugins
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
_This is a historical security advisory, pertaining to a vulnerability that was reported, patched, and published in 2021. It is listed here for completeness and for CVE tracking purposes._
### Impact
Due to an unnecessarily strict conditional in the code handling the first step of the SSO process, the pre-existing logic that added (and later checked) a nonce was inadvertently rendered opt-in instead of opt-out.
This re-exposed a vulnerability in that a specially crafted MITM attack could theoretically take over another user account during the single sign-on process.
### Patches
The issue has been fully patched as of v1.17.2.
The patch commit can be found at https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/a2400f6baff44cb2996487bcd0cc6e2acc74b3d4
### Workarounds
Site maintainers can cherry-pick https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/a2400f6baff44cb2996487bcd0cc6e2acc74b3d4 into their codebase to patch the exploit.
### References
* https://blogs.opera.com/security/2022/03/bug-bounty-adventures-a-nodebb-0-day/
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
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References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/GHSA-xmgg-fx9p-prq6
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36076
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/a2400f6baff44cb2996487bcd0cc6e2acc74b3d4
- https://blogs.opera.com/security/2022/03/bug-bounty-adventures-a-nodebb-0-day
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB