CVE-2016-10549

MEDIUM

Sails < 0.12.7 - Improper Access Control via CORS Misconfiguration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Sails is an MVC style framework for building realtime web applications. Version 0.12.7 and lower have an issue with the CORS configuration where the value of the origin header is reflected as the value for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. This would allow an attacker to make AJAX requests to vulnerable hosts through cross site scripting or a malicious HTML Document, effectively bypassing the Same Origin Policy. Note that this is only an issue when `allRoutes` is set to `true` and `origin` is set to `*` or left commented out in the sails CORS config file. The problem can be compounded when the cors `credentials` setting is not provided. At that point authenticated cross domain requests are possible.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/148

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0065
EPSS Percentile 46.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-284 CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
npm/sails 0 - 0.12.7npm
sailsjs/sails < 0.12.7
Published May 31, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026