CVE-2023-30591 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/4d2d76897a02e7068ab74c81d17a2febfae8bfb9 https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/830f142b7aea2e597294a84d52c05aab3a3539ca https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/37b48b82a4bc7680c6e4c42647209010cb239c2c https://starlabs.sg/advisories/23/23-30591/