CVE-2018-7160
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2018-05-17
- Fixed in9.10.0 · 8.11.0 · 6.14.0
- WeaknessCWE-290 · CWE-350
Am I affected?
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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.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2018-05-1714:29CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2018-7160?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2018-7160?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.x | ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.10.0 | 9.10.0 | NVD |
| 8.x | ≥ 8.9.0, < 8.11.0 | 8.11.0 | NVD |
| 6.x | ≥ 6.9.0, < 6.14.0 | 6.14.0 | NVD |
| 6.x | ≥ 6.0.0, ≤ 6.8.1 | no fix published | NVD |
| 8.x | ≥ 8.0.0, ≤ 8.8.1 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- Update Node.js to 9.10.0 · 8.11.0 · 6.14.0
Advisories and patches
- nodejs.orgVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2018-05-17
- Last Modified
- 2026-10-08
- NVD status
- Modified
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