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GHSA-GPW9-FWM8-7RX7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-07-27 17:13 – Updated: 2023-07-27 21:36

Summary

DoS vulnerability for apps with sockets enabled

Details

Impact

In Sails apps <=v1.5.6, an attacker can send a virtual request that will cause the node process to crash.

Patches

This behavior was fixed in Sails v1.5.7

Workarounds

Disable the sockets hook and remove the sails.io.js client

References

https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/pull/7287

Big thanks to @ThomasRinsma at Codean!

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-38504 (GCVE-0-2023-38504)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-27 18:12 – Updated: 2024-10-03 18:39

Title

Sails DoS vulnerability for apps with sockets enabled

Summary

Sails is a realtime MVC Framework for Node.js. In Sails apps prior to version 1.5.7,, an attacker can send a virtual request that will cause the node process to crash. This behavior was fixed in Sails v1.5.7. As a workaround, disable the sockets hook and remove the `sails.io.js` client.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-03 18:36 UTC

CWE

CWE-248 - Uncaught Exception

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/pull/7287	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/commit/4a023…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/releases/tag…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
balderdashy	sails	Affected: < 1.5.7
sailsjs	sails	Affected: 0 , < 1.5.7 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:sailsjs:sails::::::::

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