CVE-2020-15149 Account takeover in NodeBB
Attackers can take over any user account and escalate privileges by sending a crafted socket.io request to the NodeBB forum server.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-15149?
CVE-2020-15149 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in NodeBB, published on 19 Aug 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
NodeBB 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15149?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nodebb Nodebb.
How do I fix CVE-2020-15149?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-15149 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2020-15149 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15149 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2022-46164 Account takeover via prototype vulnerability
- CVE-2022-36045 Account takeover via cryptographically weak PRNG in NodeBB Forum
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hr66-c8pg-5mg7.