CVE-2022-36076

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    CVE-2022-36076

    Published: 2 Sept 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Account takeover via SSO plugins in NodeBB

    Details: NodeBB Forum Software is powered by Node.js and supports either Redis, MongoDB, or a PostgreSQL database. Due to an unnecessarily strict conditional in the code handling the first step of the SSO process, the pre-existing logic that added (and later checked) a nonce was inadvertently rendered opt-in instead of opt-out. This re-exposed a vulnerability in that a specially crafted Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack could theoretically take over another user account during the single sign-on process. The issue has been fully patched in version 1.17.2.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/36xxx/CVE-2022-36076.json, https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/GHSA-xmgg-fx9p-prq6, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36076, https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/a2400f6baff44cb2996487bcd0cc6e2acc74b3d4, https://blogs.opera.com/security/2022/03/bug-bounty-adventures-a-nodebb-0-day/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -b2652ae6972ef1a750e0764391638a6d15622dac

    Affected versions

    v1.17.1
    v1.17.0
    v1.17.0-beta.5
    v1.17.0-beta.4
    v1.17.0-beta.3
    v1.17.0-beta.2
    v1.17.0-beta.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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