CVE-2023-38504: Uncaught Exception

July 27, 2023 (updated August 3, 2023)

Sails is a realtime MVC Framework for Node.js. In Sails apps prior to version 1.5.7,, an attacker can send a virtual request that will cause the node process to crash. This behavior was fixed in Sails v1.5.7. As a workaround, disable the sockets hook and remove the sails.io.js client.

References

github.com/balderdashy/sails/commit/4a023dc5095a4b30fdc8535f705ed34cd22d2f7d
github.com/balderdashy/sails/pull/7287
github.com/balderdashy/sails/releases/tag/v1.5.7
github.com/balderdashy/sails/security/advisories/GHSA-gpw9-fwm8-7rx7
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38504

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