Authenticated server crash via unchecked room lookup
Published Jul 28, 2026 · Updated Jul 28, 2026
Null dereference in Let's Chat 0.4.0 through 0.4.8 allows remote authenticated users to crash the server through a crafted room lookup. The messages:list path passes an unmatched room result to room.canJoin without checking for null, causing an uncaught TypeError in its asynchronous Mongoose callback. Any ordinary account can terminate an unsupervised process, and default self-registration exposes that gate to network-reachable attackers.
Summary
What happened
Null dereference in Let's Chat 0.4.0 through 0.4.8 allows remote authenticated users to crash the server through a crafted room lookup. The messages:list path passes an unmatched room result to room.canJoin without checking for null, causing an uncaught TypeError in its asynchronous Mongoose callback. Any ordinary account can terminate an unsupervised process, and default self-registration exposes that gate to network-reachable attackers.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-66749
- Published
- Jul 28, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 28, 2026
- Vendor
- Security Compass
- Product
- Let's Chat
- Classifications
- CWE-476, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 28, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0.4.0 <=0.4.8
- Affected versionversion=84981a6d2534445c00ea4e095c934e46943c0b1d <=617207ff3c0c0bf8e3c7a915bd9ec03f1dd8390c
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Public exploit references
- CVE-2026-66749 researcher reproductionfunctional · demonstrated
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