Broken CORS Affecting sails package, versions <0.12.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:sails:20161013
  • published 20 Oct 2016
  • disclosed 13 Oct 2016
  • credit Evan Johnson

How to fix?

Upgrade sails to version 0.12.7 or higher.

Overview

sails is API-driven framework for building realtime apps, using MVC conventions (based on Express and Socket.io).

Sails version 0.12.6 and lower allowed the default CORS settings to be very permissive, letting the attacker to bypass the Same Origin Policy.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

8.2 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None