CVE-2018-7160

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 17, 2018
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Reserved
Feb 15, 2018

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Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

  • CWE-350 Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Node.jsThe Node.js Project
  • ^6.0.0 || ^8.0.0 || ^9.0.0Affected

References

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