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Critical Vulnerability in NestJS Devtools: Localhost RCE via...

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Jonathan LeitschuhAugust 1, 2025Ever look at a bit of Javascript sandboxing code and say to yourself “I know I can probably break out of that”. No? Just me? Must be a security researcher thing.As a hacker, one of the best places for vulnerabilities is in servers running locally on dev machines. Why? Because browsers still haven’t patched a 19 year old security vulnerability that allows any website to cross-talk from the public internet to local services on your machine. This long-standing vulnerability allows your browser to operate as a confused deputy, allowing attackers to use your browser to pivot and make HTTP requests to your local machine.Combine that localhost server with an API endpoint that executes arbitrary code inside a sandbox that can be broken out of, and you find yourself looking at a critical RCE vulnerability.How did we get here?As part of our ongoing review of findings from Socket’s AI-based malware detection, we examined a set of alerts that were classified as pote...

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