CVE-2018-7160

Aliases:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7160GHSA-wq4c-wm6x-jw44
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Modified
Published: 17 May 2018, 14:00
Last modified:17 Sept 2024, 01:35

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
37/100
CVSS Score
8.8 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
9.87% LOW
10% probability +8.37%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

17 May 2018, 14:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
17 Sept 2024, 01:35
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 9.87%• Percentile: 95%

Techniques & Countermeasures

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

    The product performs reverse DNS resolution on an IP address to obtain the hostname and make a security decision, but it does not properly ensure that the IP address is truly associated with the hostname.

  • CWE-290•Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

    This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

Affected Systems

  • debian•nodejs

    < 8.11.1~dfsg-2 | < 8.11.1~dfsg-2 | < 8.11.1~dfsg-2 | < 8.11.1~dfsg-2

  • nodejs•node.js

    ≥ 6.0.0, ≤ 6.8.1 | ≥ 6.9.0, < 6.14.0 | ≥ 8.0.0, ≤ 8.8.1 | ≥ 8.9.0, < 8.11.0 | ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.10.0

  • Npm•node-inspector

    ≥ 6.0

  • the node.js project•node.js

    ^6.0.0 || ^8.0.0 || ^9.0.0

References (8)