Account takeover via prototype vulnerability
60Vexday Risk Score
Keep watching. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 9.4epss 49%
from disclosure to weapon30 days
Published on NVDDec 5
1st PoC+30d
exploitation probability
49%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
NodeBB is an open source Node.js based forum software. Due to a plain object with a prototype being used in socket.io message handling a specially crafted payload can be used to impersonate other users and takeover accounts. This vulnerability has been patched in version 2.6.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may cherry-pick commit `48d143921753914da45926cca6370a92ed0c46b8` into their codebase to patch the exploit.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Affected products
NodeBB · NodeBBpublic PoCs found — 1
githubgithub.com/stephenbradshaw/CVE-2022-46164-poc★ 12⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.