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High · 7.5 CVE-2018-14730 EUVD-2020-0849GHSA-77q4-m83q-w76v

Missing Origin Validation in browserify-hmr

Published Sep 21, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in Browserify-HMR. Attackers are able to steal developer's code because the origin of requests is not checked by the WebSocket server, which is used for HMR (Hot Module Replacement). Anyone can receive the HMR message sent by the WebSocket server via a ws://127.0.0.1:3123/ connection from any origin.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm browserify-hmr < 0.4.0 0.4.0 GHSA-77q4-m83q-w76v

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