CVE-2020-15149
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15149
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15149.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-15149
- Aliases
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- GHSA-hr66-c8pg-5mg7
- Published
- 2020-08-20T01:17:12Z
- Modified
- 2026-10-20T10:52:49Z
- Severity
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- 9.9 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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NodeBB before version 1.14.3 has a bug introduced in version 1.12.2 in the validation logic that makes it possible to change the password of any user on a running NodeBB forum by sending a specially crafted socket.io call to the server. This could lead to a privilege escalation event due via an account takeover. As a workaround you may cherry-pick the following commit from the project's repository to your running instance of NodeBB: 16cee1b03ba3eee177834a1fdac4aa8a12b39d2a. This is fixed in version 1.14.3.
- References
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- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159560/NodeBB-Forum-1.14.2-Account-Takeover.html
- https://zeroauth.ltd/blog/2020/08/20/proof-of-concept-exploit-for-cve-2020-15149-nodebb-arbitrary-user-password-change/
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/c2477d9d5ffc43e5ffeb537ea2ceb4ce9592aa39
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/GHSA-hr66-c8pg-5mg7
Affected packages
Git / github.com/nodebb/nodebb
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/nodebb/nodebb
- Events
- Database specific
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Show details
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