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CVE-2018-7160
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-05-17 · updated 2026-10-08
- Weakness: CWE-350
Description
The Node.js inspector, in 6.x and later is vulnerable to a DNS rebinding attack which could be exploited to perform remote code execution. An attack is possible from malicious websites open in a web browser on the same computer, or another computer with network access to the computer running the Node.js process. A malicious website could use a DNS rebinding attack to trick the web browser to bypass same-origin-policy checks and to allow HTTP connections to localhost or to hosts on the local network. If a Node.js process with the debug port active is running on localhost or on a host on the local network, the malicious website could connect to it as a debugger, and get full code execution access.
Affected products
- Node.js: from 6.0.0 through 6.8.1; from 6.9.0 before 6.14.0; from 8.0.0 through 8.8.1; from 8.9.0 before 8.11.0; from 9.0.0 before 9.10.0 — fixed in 6.14.0, 8.11.0, 9.10.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Node.js 6.14.0, 8.11.0, 9.10.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/march-2018-security-releases/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K63025104?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/march-2018-security-releases/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K63025104?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
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