Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20187160000
Revision Date:2018-05-17Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-7160 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-7160
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'nodejs' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '8.11.2~dfsg-1').
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