High
Sails DoS vulnerability for apps with sockets enabled
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Sails is a realtime MVC Framework for Node.js. In Sails apps prior to version 1.5.7,, an attacker can send a virtual request that will cause the node process to crash. This behavior was fixed in Sails v1.5.7. As a workaround, disable the sockets hook and remove the `sails.io.js` client.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-38504
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 5 Nov 2026, 02:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Sails DoS vulnerability for apps with sockets enabled
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 27 Jul 2023, 18:12 UTC
Sails is a realtime MVC Framework for Node.js. In Sails apps prior to version 1.5.7,, an attacker can send a virtual request that will cause the node process to crash. This behavior was fixed in Sails v1.5.7. As a workaround, disable the sockets hook and remove the `sails.io.js` client.
osv:CVE-2023-38504
Complete source record
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