CVE-2023-30591
highpriority · attend · 51EPSS 0.587 · 99 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Denial-of-service in NodeBB <= v2.8.10 allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a crash, when invoking `eventName.startsWith()` or `eventName.toString()`, while processing Socket.IO messages via crafted Socket.IO messages containing array or object type for the event name respectively.
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affected products (2)
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references (13)
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- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-30591/cnnvd
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/37b48b82a4bc7680c6e4c42647209010cb239c2ccnnvd
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/4d2d76897a02e7068ab74c81d17a2febfae8bfb9cnnvd
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/830f142b7aea2e597294a84d52c05aab3a3539cacnnvd
- https://starlabs.sg/advisories/23/23-30591/cnnvd
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/37b48b82a4bc7680c6e4c42647209010cb239c2cenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/4d2d76897a02e7068ab74c81d17a2febfae8bfb9enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/830f142b7aea2e597294a84d52c05aab3a3539caenisa_euvd
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