CVE-2023-38504

Summary

CVECVE-2023-38504
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-07-27 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-03 13:40:00 UTC
DescriptionSails is a realtime MVC Framework for Node.js. In Sails apps prior to version 1.5.7,, an attacker can send a virtual request that will cause the node process to crash. This behavior was fixed in Sails v1.5.7. As a workaround, disable the sockets hook and remove the `sails.io.js` client.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sailsjs Sails All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Improve virtual request parsing (#7287) · balderdashy/sails@4a023dc · GitHub MISC github.com
Improve virtual request parsing by mikermcneil · Pull Request #7287 · balderdashy/sails · GitHub MISC github.com
Release v1.5.7 · balderdashy/sails · GitHub MISC github.com
DoS vulnerability for apps with sockets enabled · Advisory · balderdashy/sails · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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