Vulnerability in nodebb (CVE-2023-2850)
Summary
Vulnerability in nodebb (CVE-2023-2850). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 3.1.3 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Impact
Private messages or posts might be leaked to third parties if victim opens the attackers site while browsing nodebb.
Patches
- Patched in v3.1.3
- Backported to v2.x line via v2.8.13
Workarounds
Users can cherry-pick https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/51096ad2345fb1d1380bec0a447113489ef6c359 if they are on v3.x
If you are running v2.x of NodeBB, you can cherry-pick a5d92da9ddac5607ab7f737520a66eaed6d3ddee followed by 62e162cf1e735e42462be1db9b4954b5a69accdf
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-2850 has been found in nodebb.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade nodebb to 3.1.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "nodebb CVE-2023-2850" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2023-2850 (nodebb) — CWE-1385
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Patched: 3.1.3 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-1385) exists in nodebb.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of nodebb.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 3.1.3.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'nodebb' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'nodebb' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
nodebbを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade nodebb to 3.1.3ステージング環境で 3.1.3 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
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