CVE-2020-15149

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-15149
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-08-20 01:17:00 UTC
Updated2021-11-18 18:34:00 UTC
DescriptionNodeBB before version 1.14.3 has a bug introduced in version 1.12.2 in the validation logic that makes it possible to change the password of any user on a running NodeBB forum by sending a specially crafted socket.io call to the server. This could lead to a privilege escalation event due via an account takeover. As a workaround you may cherry-pick the following commit from the project's repository to your running instance of NodeBB: 16cee1b03ba3eee177834a1fdac4aa8a12b39d2a. This is fixed in version 1.14.3.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nodebb Nodebb All All All All
Application Nodebb Nodebb All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Account takeover via password change request · Advisory · NodeBB/NodeBB · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Proof of Concept exploit for CVE-2020-15149 – NodeBB Arbitrary User Password Change – ZeroAuth MISC zeroauth.ltd Third Party Advisory
fix: improper targetUid check during password change · NodeBB/NodeBB@c2477d9 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
NodeBB Forum 1.14.2 Account Takeover ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
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