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CVE-2022-36076GHSA-XMGG-FX9P-PRQ6

Account takeover via SSO plugins in NodeBB

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.17.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

NodeBB Forum Software is powered by Node.js and supports either Redis, MongoDB, or a PostgreSQL database. Due to an unnecessarily strict conditional in the code handling the first step of the SSO process, the pre-existing logic that added (and later checked) a nonce was inadvertently rendered opt-in instead of opt-out. This re-exposed a vulnerability in that a specially crafted Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack could theoretically take over another user account during the single sign-on process. The issue has been fully patched in version 1.17.2.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • NodeBB NodeBB

    fixed in 1.17.2

  • nodebbnpm

    fixed in 1.17.2

References 3

blogs.opera.com

GitHub · NodeBB/NodeBB