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CVE-2018-7160

8.8 high SSVC exploitation: none Modified

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.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 8.8 · nodejsNVD modified 2026-10-08 22:16

Affected (CPE criteria) 2

  • cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

References 6