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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2018-7160 json

Withdrawn Advisory: Node.js Inspector RCE via DNS Rebinding

published 2018-05-17 8 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-wq4c-wm6x-jw44 , EUVD-2022-5619

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.5%
EPSS 9.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • nodejs node.js 6.14.0, 8.11.0, 9.10.0
  • nodejs Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8.11.1~dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7160

  • nodejs Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 8.10.0~dfsg-2ubuntu0.4+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7160

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  • rh-nodejs8-nodejs RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 8.11.4-1.el7
  • rh-nodejs8-npm RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.6.0-8.11.4.1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2949

  • nodejs6 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12, OpenStack Cloud 7, Enterprise Storage 4 6.14.1-11.12.1
  • firefox-atk SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 2.26.1-2.8.4
  • mozilla-nss SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 3.45-38.9.3
  • firefox-gtk3 SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 3.10.9-2.15.3
  • mozilla-nspr SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 4.21-29.6.1
  • firefox-cairo SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 1.15.10-2.13.4
  • firefox-glib2 SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 2.54.3-2.14.7
  • firefox-pango SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 1.40.14-2.7.4

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:14246-1SUSE-SU-2018:1183-1

  • nodejs Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 8.11.0-r0
  • nodejs-current Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 9.10.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-7160

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-7160 updated cvss 5.8

nodejs: Inspector DNS rebinding vulnerability

  • Red Hat Software Collections rh-nodejs6-nodejs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) rh-nodejs8-nodejs 8.11.4-1.el7, rh-nodejs8-npm 5.6.0-8.11.4.1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) rh-nodejs8-nodejs 8.11.4-1.el7, rh-nodejs8-npm 5.6.0-8.11.4.1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) rh-nodejs8-nodejs 8.11.4-1.el7, rh-nodejs8-npm 5.6.0-8.11.4.1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) rh-nodejs8-nodejs 8.11.4-1.el7, rh-nodejs8-npm 5.6.0-8.11.4.1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2949
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 npm, nodejs, nodejs-libs, nodejs-nodemon, nodejs-full-i18n, nodejs-packaging, +1 more Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 nodejs Red Hat Software Collections rh-nodejs4-nodejs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

9.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • The Node.js Project Node.js

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-350 Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action
  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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