CVE-2018-7160 (GCVE-0-2018-7160)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-17 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:35
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Summary
The Node.js inspector, in 6.x and later is vulnerable to a DNS rebinding attack which could be exploited to perform remote code execution. An attack is possible from malicious websites open in a web browser on the same computer, or another computer with network access to the computer running the Node.js process. A malicious website could use a DNS rebinding attack to trick the web browser to bypass same-origin-policy checks and to allow HTTP connections to localhost or to hosts on the local network. If a Node.js process with the debug port active is running on localhost or on a host on the local network, the malicious website could connect to it as a debugger, and get full code execution access.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-350 - Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Node.js Project Node.js Affected: ^6.0.0 || ^8.0.0 || ^9.0.0
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Date Public
2018-03-21 00:00
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